Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 35, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1889 — Page 4

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THE INDIANA STATE IIIS JSLu W .EDIS' JSSDA Y., JfJSBKUAKY 13, löö'J.

INDIANA STATE SESTKEi; I Entered at ttie Postoffice at Indianapoll aa secondclass matter.

TERMS PEE YEAR Fing! copy Ä1 00 We ask democrats to bear in mind and select their ta 8 tat paper when they come to take iubcriptk.es and mako up clubs. Agents making up clubs send for any information desired. Addesa rNDlAKAFOLIS SENTINEL, Indianapolis, lnd. ' WEDNESDAY, FEB. 13. Woods and the "Red-Eyed Law." Tb9 Sews, which has pronounced Willjam Wade Dcdley "an honest ana muchmaligred man," is now engaged in the congetial task of defending Dudley's judicial protector, William A. Woods. In order to make a plausible showing for Woods the Xacs finds it necessary to ignore the fact that he reversed his instructions to the grand jury, when by such action alone Dudley's indictment could be prevented, and to make the false assertion that his construction of the law is sustained "with one voice by good lawyers." The Xeics has repeatedly testified to the legal ability and the personal integrity of exFenator McDonald and Judge Clayfool. Poth of them say very emphatically that Woods did not construe the law correctly in his revised instructions to the grand jury, and the former goes so far as to characterize these instructions as "preposterous." If Judge Woods declared only the "red-eyed law" when he closed the doors against Dudley's indictment, Mr. McDosald, Judge Clatpool, Senator Voorhees and many other lawyers of far higher rank than he has ever held, or ever will hold, clearly do not know the "red-eyed law" when they eee it. But if it is the "red-eyed law" that Woods declared in his second charge, what was it he declared in his first charge ? In the latter he told the grand jury emphatically and without any qualification whatsoever, that advising bribery was a crime. He never intimated that it was necessary that such advice should be acted upon in order to make it a crime. He pave the jury plainly to understand that its duty was to indict anj one whom it believed to have been frailty of advising bribery, whether it had reason to believe that such advice was acted upon or not. He 6aid that there "uas some wisdom in the protision" mating the mere advising of bribery a felony, and he concluded his charge with the statement that his interpretation of the law covered every charge that had been made or was likely to be made, as to offenses against it. The second instruction was in direct conflict with the first instruction. Now if the "red-eyed law" was so plain why did not Judgo Woods lay it down in his first charge instead of waiting until Dcdley's indictment was imminent? Why was the "red-eyed law" withheld from the grand jury through weeks of a laborious investigation, conducted under the instructions first given? Why was the "red-eyed law" not proclaimed until Quay and Bateman had visited Indianipolis and conferred with Gen. Harrison? Why was not Walter Q. Gresiiam, Woods' immediate judicial superior, not consulted in the premises? Why did Woods not wait until both sides could be heard upon a motion to quash the indictment, before passing upon this question, instead of making an ex parte Becision, and thrusting it between his political and personal friend and a prosecution for bribery ? These questions the Xeus will not answer; it will not attempt to answer them, and for the pimple reason that they can col be answered without impeaching William A. Woods' judicial integrity, and presenting him in the character of a defender of crime and an ally of criminals. A Boom For Kins Corn. Baron von IIcmboldt having asserted very positively that maizo could net be made into a palatable food for human beings, was convinced of his error by the Hon. Joseph A. Weight of thii state when I". S. minister at Berlin by an object l?spon which proved as agreeable as instructive to the distinguished traveler and avant. The baron, being entertained by Minister Wright, found himself growing rnthusiastic over certain toothsome dishes prepared by Mrs. Wright, which were made out of the very grain he had so stoutly condemned as unfit for human consumption. The prejudice of which Earon vox Humboldt was thus relieved is itill shared bv a great majority of Europeans. Comparatively few of them have become maize-eaters, and the toiling millions on the continent continue to eat their bitter black bread, or spend more than .they can afford for wheaten loaves, while the value and palatableness of corn remain almost unknown to them. Our exportations of wheat and wheat ßour range from 25 to CO per cent, cf our whole crop, while we export, in the form cf corn or corn meal, only 2 or 3 per cent, of our corn crop. The following statistics are given in a recent publication: The corn crop in 19 was 1,936,176,000 bnshIs; in the same year the wheat crop was 357,112,000, of which H9i:i,305 bushels were exported. Tbe consumption of corn per capita la that year was 32. I bushels, while that of wheat was only 4.4!) bushels per capita. A comparison of values is still more striking. In that it shows not only the greater value of cur corn crop taken as a whole, but its relative eheapne as an article of food for man and beast. The value of the corn crop in ISfctf was f;i0,31 1,000, and in 18S7 was $H6,103,70O; the value of the wheat crop of I SM was SU-LE.'o.OlW, and in 1S7 was 5 10, 6 12,900; yet the value of tbe corn exported in 1&m was $3l,7'Jf),rS2, corn meal, $853,370, n'1 n l&tf. corn. ?it),3i7,3;i, corn meal, $703.313, while the exports of wheat in were valued at $00,261,715, whtat flour, $.",442,955, and in 1SS7, wheat, jO,716,4cl; wheat flour, tölfiöO fibL It is proposed, at the approaching Paris exposition, to repeat on a large scale, for the benefit of tbe people of Europe, the experiment which proved so efficacious in the case of Baron xos Humboldt. A special pavillion will be erected, within which will be prepared and dispensed free the various articles of food made from maize. "Broad promenades," say the New York Commercial Advertiser in describing the project, "are planned between the counters and shelves, upon which the exhibits of the different food products from maize will be displayed, while in the middle it is intended to have several ranges and ovens, at which real southern Aunties and Dinahs, in bright calico gowns and gay bandanas on their heads, will prepare the hominy, pones, corn dodgers, puddings and grits, which ax relifchrd alike bv master and man

throughout the South. A New England housewife or two will be added to bake rich mahogany-colored loaves of Boston brown bread, golden Johnny cakes and Indian puddings, and the cooked viands will be freelv given to whomever will partake." It is believed that by this method a knowledge of the value of corn as an article of food for men and women can be disseminated throughout Europe, and that the result will be a great increase in the exDort demand for that most important American product. The project was originated by Col. Charles J. Murphy of New York City, who has been designated by the agricultural department to look after the special corn exhibit. The general supervision will remain under the control of the agricultural department of tho American commission. The enterprise, however, will have to be carried out mainly by private effort, the congressional appropriation for the American display being insufficient to cover more than a small per centage of the necessary cost. The produce exchange of New York has taken the matter in hand and we have no doubt the project will be successfully carried out. It is one of great importance to the agriculturists of the United States to whom additional outlets for their products arc absolutely necessary. A Scotch-Irish Congress. A unique and interesting gathering will be held at Columbia, Tcnn., on the 8th day of May. An international congress of the representatives of the Scotch-Irish stock has been called to meet in that attractive little city on the clay mentioned. Among the distinguished men who will be present and take an active part in the proceedings are Col. A. K. McClure, the well-known editor of the Philadelphia Times; Dr. McIntosh of Philadelphia; Dr. John Hall, the famous presbyterian divino of New York; J. H. Inman, the great steamship man, and Senator Vance, of North Carolina. The congress will be an event of great social interest as well as of historical importance, representatives of the ScotchIrish race from all quarters of the English-speaking world will attend. Historical papers will be read by eminent scholars, and orations will be delivered commemorating the deeds of the Scotch-Irish. The proceedings will be printed in a volume which will Dave great historical value, and will be of especial interest to all who are of Scotch-Irish stock. The Scotch-Irish have played an important part on the stage of modern life, and, as Col. McClure says, their impress upon American institutions has been especially strong. Among the notable American representatives of the stock were Andrew Jackson, A. T. Stewart, Robert Fulton, Horace Greeley and Robert Bonner. Columbia, where the congress will be held, is a pleasant and attractive little city, in central Tennessee. It is easily accessible by railroads, and Eituated as it is in a section that is largely inhabited by people of Scotch-Irish blood, is a peculiarly appropriate place for such a gathering. Mr. A. C. Floyd of Columbia, the secretary, writes The Sentinel that "all members of the race are invited to attend, and correspondence is solicited with those who de.ire to be present themselves or will furnish the names of prominent members of the race who would be likelv to attend."

A Bugaboo of the Jjobby. We find the following choice morsel of school book trust literature in the subsidized organ of the trust: One gnat com pi .tint against the public ehools is their tendency to destroy individuality and originality and to produce a race of men and women who have toe same ideas and who think according to the fame rules and regulations. This tendency to uniformity will be greatly increased when the machine-made text-book, provided for by Mr. Pleasants' bill, thall come into use. Think of tens of thousands of children in Indiana reading simultaneously from the same readers, and performing the Fame arithmetical problems on the thousands of blackboards! It variety is the spice, of life, juvenile Hoosierdoni in likely to go without mental stimulants while that remarkable law remains in force. There is not a school-book lobbyist in this town who will net discourse just as eloquently, "between the sherry and the champagne," about the dangers of uniformity of text-books as the subsidized organ does in the foregoing. And yet this very uniformity now prevails in Indiana, the leading firm in the trust Van Antwerp, Bragg fc Co. supplying eighty out of the ninety-two counties with most or all of their text-books. And the bill introduced in the legislature in behalf of the trust, and advocated by the Journal, provides for ahoJ-tfe uniformity ot textbooks throughout the state, the said books to be purchased, of course, of the schoolbook ring, instead of being printed by contract for the state. It thus appears that the school-book lobby and its organ do not object to uniformity of text-books so long as the textbooks are supplied by the trust. It is only when the school-books are not furnished by the trust that uniformity becomes such a bugaboo. The School Book Trust. The school book trust lobby is getting in some very fine work these days. Quite a number of legislators who came to Indianapolis full of fight against the trust are now as quiet as the grave. Others who were going to "smash the trust" in short order are now advocating its cause with great zeal. Gov. Hovey'h influence is being exerted in behalf of the trust schemes, and tho rest of the republican 6tate oiiicials, headed by State Supt. LaFollette, and aided by divers and sundry county superintendents, professors, school trustees, etc., from various parts of the state, are laboring with might and main to prevent any anti-trust legislation. The subsidized organ of the trust is filling its columns with denunciation of everything and everybody that threatens to interfere with the trust's operations. One or two newspapers that were very fierce against the trust a few weeks ago have been silenced, and desperate attempts have been made to silence The Sentinel. Who says there are any flies on the school book lobby ? Next to th9 question of election reform this school book question is by far the most important matter before the legislature. It has only two sides. The interests of the trust and the interests of the people are in direct conflict. Those who are in favor of the trust are opjnxsed to the people; and vice versa. There is no middle ground. We advwo the DeoDle of Indiana to scan

the proceedings of the legislature closely on this question. The Sentinel will print the roll calls on the test votes, and they should be tiled away for future reference. Those who vote for the trust may safely bo set down as venal or incompetent legislators, aid their constituents should see to it that they are retired to private life on the first opportunity. A Meritorious Measure. One of the bills now pending in the lower house is worthy of especial attention. We refer to the bill granting to towns of 20,000 inhabitants the right to spend $15,000 for the establishment of homes for orphan children. These unfortunates are to be found in every county in the state. To gather them into homes where they will receive good moral training and acquire habits of industry is to make of them good citizens and thus to benefit the state. To allow them to grow up amid the demoralizing influences which characterize our poorhouses is to insure a crop of paupers and criminals to maintain in the future. We are assured that there is in the state one county that for thirty years had not a girl in its poor-house who did not return one or more times, leaving an illegitimate child to take her place. Had these girls been in homes where they would have been cared for and instructed properly, they would doubtless have become respectable women, doing their part of the world's wort, a blessing instead of a curse to the com muni ty. Laying aside the humane and philanthropic phase of this question and considering it only from the standpoint of economy, the measure is a wise one. It is cheaper to prevent than to punish crime. Most of the inmates of our prisons and poor-houses an? the untaught, neglected children of the past. We trust our legislators will consider this question, both from the humane and economic standpoints, and pass this bill in which so many are deeply interested. Tn.vr fine old Pennsylvania democrat, PiicnARD Vaux hale, hearty and seventythree was talking politics the other day, and in reply to the question whether Mr. Randall was to be the future leader of the democratic party, said: "I have a profound regard personally for Samuel J. Randall, but I don't take much stock in his politics. Mr. Randall, unless I mistake the temper of the times, is very much in tho minority in his own party. A more thoroughly equipped parliamentarian cannot be found than the member from the Third district, but his doctrines are too close to those of Mr. Blaine of Maine to challenge my admiration. Mr. Randall must first convert his own party to his especial views in favor of a high protective tariff before he can safely set up as a leader of that party which gave to G rover Cleveland nearly one hundred thousand popular majority in the whole country in November." Old Richard Vaux's head is level. Personally Mr. Randall is admired, but his politics resembles Mr. Blaine's too closely to make him eligible for the leaderfihip of tho national democratic party. The republicans in the senate Saturday took advantage of the absence of several democratic senators to strike out of the election bill the provision for the destruction of the ballots at the conclusion of the canvass. This is one of the wisest and most salutary provisions in the bill. It closes tho door against a certain class of election frauds from which the people have suffered greatly tho post-election tampering with ballots. The New York law which is admitted to be the most perfect statute in this country so far as relates to the canvass and certification of the vote contains this provision, and it has operated to tho satisfaction of all honest men of every party in that state. When the count has been completed and the, tally-sheets filled out, there can be no legitimate object in preserving the ballots, excepting 6uch as are protested, and the senate bill enjoins preservation of these. The action of the republicans in striking out this clause of the bill is another evidence of the insincerity of their professed zeal for election reform. The democrats ought to restore this provision before sending the bill to engrossment. Yesterday in the senate Mr. Thompson of Jasper county offered an amendment to the election bill, providing that the inspector of election in every precinct and the precinct chairmen should meet 6ixty days before the election and prepare a list of the legal voters in the precinct, and that such lists should be revised on the twenty-ninth day before the election, and that no person whose name did not appear on such list should be permitted to vote. Such a scheme, whatever the intent of its proponent, would certainly open wide the doors for corruption and fraud, and would make it possible, in many instances, by corrupt methods, to disfranchise legal voters, not in "blocks of five" but in blocks of fifty. The democrats very properly voted down this amendment after its improper and dangerous character had been pointed out by Senator Barrett. The republicans voted solidly for it, which is a striking commentary upon their professed anxiety for pure elections. Senator Jonxsox of Wayne county, the republican leader in tho senate, declared, when the election bill was called up, that it was in the main a good measure, and that he would cheerfully support it, although he thought it needed some amendment. Since then he and his associates have tried hard to load the bill down with impracticable amendments, or such as would probably tend to defeat its purposes, or to make it obnoxious to tho people. Saturday Johnson denounced the bUl as "cumbersome" and "expensive," and predicted that it would be repealed in the near future. It is evident that Johnson has no stomach for election reform, and would greatly prefer to leave the ballot-box in its present unprotected condition. But why doesn't Johnson vote against the bill? Is be afraid to put himself ofi record against a measure which he is so sure will prove distasteful to the people? - "Stand by your rascals" is tho word of command given by the inspired organ to the republicans of Indiana. "If there is a man among you who is under indictment for crime, elect him to make laws for the people. If any of your number has been kicked out of the senate for buying his way there, send him back. Don't b squeamish about it. Don't mind

f it if a dozen witnesses have testified to his

acts of corruption, and he has refused to be 6worn regarding them. Vote-buying is all right, when the wicked democrats are to be defeated. Tut a bold face on the matter, remember that 'politics is politics,' go in to win regardless of every moral consideration, and, meantime, brethren let us pray." Thus, the inspired organ. Applying the "deadly parallel column" to Judge Woods and the Indianapolis Xeirs we have the following startling result:

JUDGE WOODS. The matter was left in this shape for the purpose of investigation, not because, in the opinion of the court, there was any room for disagreement, hut became tbe court had learned that counsel for tut government and another gtnllenum of high ttnnding in thit Hate a a lavyer and ciliim hi.i adopted a riw diffcrent from my otrn. And a these gentlemen placed upon tho statute a more Btrlnjjept construction than mine, and onevhich might tend more efficiently to guard the elec'um and the eUrtire franchise from pollution, etc. THE "SEWS." . The question is one of law, which, as we said at the time, tbe AVri dos not pretend to pass upon, liood lawyers do, however, and they fay. tri' A voire, that advice to tieir.pt to commit a crime is not punishable unlet an attempt at the commission is made. This is Jiultfe Woods' position a wo understand it, and cor.' Liuy rt ayree that it is t,hs"red eyed law." If this isn't "a case of befuddlement," what is it? As to the election bill, the Journal suggests (1) that bystanders should not bo allowed nearer than one huudred feet of the polls, instead of fifty, as now provided; (2) that the countiug of the ballots should begin eeveral hours before the close of the polls ; and (3) that additional safeguards should be provided for the custody of the tally-sheets and the final canvass of the returns. These suggestions, and especially the last, are good ones. Provision should, we think, bo made for the use of some ballot-box, if any such there be, that is so constructed as to make it physically impossible to tamper with the ballots in any way. These boxes would cost some money at the start, but if they accomplished their purpose they would be worth all they cost, and, once provided, they would last for many years. Tnn Journal is of course indignant because the house, in the exercise of its discretion, unseated John and put Peyton in his place. This was to be expected. Two years ago, however, when the republican house unseated Meagher, a democrat, who had been fairly elected, and put a republican in his place, the Journal said "amen." And yet no fraud wa3 charged in the matter, and no pretense was made that Meagher had not received an honest majority. A miserable technicality was made the sole pretext for unseating him, and the Journal indorsed the proceeding heartily. A paper which could sanction such a bare-faced outrage ought to forever hold it3 peace about "political larceny." Our esteemed contemporary, the Plymouth Democrat, professes to believe that cheap coal would not only be disastrous to the miners but to Ihe conmmers as writ. We are a good deal surprised to find such nonsense in so excellent a democratic journal as our Plymouth contemporary. Cheap coal would be a great boon to the county. It woiild stimulate manufacturing of all kinds enormously, and would not injure the miners, whose wages are now kept at the subsistence point by the great coal companies. Coal is a prime necessity of life and tho most important of all raw materials. The tax upon it is utterly indefensible, and the democratic party ought to be a unit in demanding its repeal. The Washington Pod concludes a trenchant and vigorous editorial on the Moore defalcation in these words: MOORE is now a fugitive disgraced, dishonoredbut cafe from the retribution that he bo richly deserves. He has gone to that bonrne of refuge from which the traveler never returns. The law opposed no barrier to his exit. Justice was not invoked to stay Iiis departing footsteps. The moral sense of the country is shocked. The interests, not only of the Connecticut Mutual, but of all fiduciary institutions are placed more or less in jeopardy by the laxity Ümt scer.is to have chaneterizod the history of this great defalcation from first to last. The criminality of the act is in itself as nothing compared to the greater wrong that is involved in the circumstances of its occurrence and the extraordinary opportunities that were offered for an evasion of its penal consequences. The Afff?, in it3 attempts to whitewash Judge Woods, says "it is precisely what constitutes an attempt to do a thing that the democratic organs are trying to dodge, and make it apjear that Judge Woods is a corrupt judge." What this miserable jugglery with, language means we cannot even guess. Certainly the question of what constitutes an attempt to commit a crime was not considered by Woods, either in his first charge or his second charge, and has no more to do with the case than "the flowers that bloom in the spring, trail." '.- . We regret very much that the election bill was not so amended as to make it apply to municipal elections in Indianapolis. It is a notorious fact that boodle is liberally used and intimidation freely resorted to in our city elections, and it would be a good thing if they could be held under the Australian system. In Wisconsin the system has been adopted and made applicable to city elections in Milwaukee alone, and a similar law has been passed in Kentucky to apply only to municipal elections in Louisville. Brr If it was the "red-eyed law" that Woods declared in hi second eharc:. what was it lie declared in his first charpe! In the latter he told the grnnd jury emphatically and without any qualification whatsoever, that advising bribery wan a crime SF.5TI.VKL. No, he didn't. lie told them that advising an "attempt" at bribery was a crime. yevt. Yes, ho did. lie told them that the law made advising or "counseling" bribery a crime. Here are the exact words, as taken from his first charge: The latter clause of the section main any cite guiliy vrho counsel bribery. The News does not dare to give its readers the facts about Judgo Woods' action in this Dudley business. Supt. La Follette is devoting most of his time to lobbying in behalf of the school-book trust. He is assisted by a number of educators from various parts of the state, whose anxiety for the defeat of anti-trust legislation shows that they know on which side their bread is buttered. It is really disgraceful that these paid servants of the people should be found working against tho interests of the people, and in btdialf of their plunderers. The republican senators who are supporting the election reform bill with such an assumption of cheerfulness are privately denouncing it as a "fraud" and a "humbug," and are much exercised about its aliened "curubersouieness" and "intri

cacy." Election reform is a bitter dose for these boodle statesmen. But they have to swallow it, and pretend that they like it, too. Nine senators Monday put themselves on record against a reform in our elections. They are all republicans, and their names are Alford, Boyd, Bozeman, Caster, De Motte, Grose, Harness, Soocknev, and Thompson of Jasper county. The honest electors of Indiana ought to cut out the names of these men and paste them in their hats. They will come handy for future reference. If the democrats of Indiana ever extect to succeed they must stand by their representatives. That is the only way to political success. I'llmouth Democrat. The democrats of Indiana ought to stand by their representatives when their representatives are right. When their representatives are wrong, the democrats of Indiana ought to call them to order. One of the important duties of the legislature is to wipe out the pluck-me stores. They are an outrage upon the miners and a curse to the state, and it ought to be possible to extinguish them by legislation. Smash the school-book trust! Smash it all to pieces ! ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

R. C. Glassco, Chesterfield, Ind.: Kansas and perhaps some other states permit marriascs between white and colored people. SCHOOL Boy, Million. Ind.: Mrs. Harrison's given name is "Caroline." She signs herself "Caroline Scott Harrison," "Scott" having been her maiden name. L. S. Dalton, Grecncastle, lnd: (1) Write to George W. Bell, Pes Moines, la. (2) Ben Butler's vote in Indiana in 1SS1 was S.293; Streeter's (united laborjat the last election was but -2.m. Isaac S. White, Noble, I1L: We do not know the origin of tbe term "burnt district" as applied to the republican ßectiou in eastern Indiana. Perhaps 6ome of our readers can enlighten you. A Subscriber, St Paul, Ind.: The senate, which is the only tribunal with authority to pass upon the question, has decided that neither Carpenter nor Itay was elected senator front Shelby and Decatur counties: Constant Reader, Yinccnnes, Ind.: We know of no railway station in the world which exceeds the Union Btntion in this city in the number of passenger trains arriving at and departi:;t; from it, leaving suburban train3 out of consideration. PERSONAL GOSSIP. The full name of the biggest man in France at present is George Ernest John Maria Boulangcr. The furniture of Baron Woodcock-Savage, tbe American favorite of tbe king of Wurtemberc, nnd his palace at Stuttgart, were recently sold under the hammer and realized the sum of $110,000. Dr. Dcff, who was one of the best-known medical practitioners in tho north of Scotland, died a fortnight ago. He attended O'Connell in Lis last illness at Genoa, and was with "the liberator" when he died. Mr. Sargent, the American painter, who has won such fame in London, has a fine, powful figure, mnrnlar hands, sharp brown eyes and a square, determined jaw. He has the "air of a natural ruler of men. Among American ladies whose names are to be submitted for presentation at the forthcoming drawingroom of the qneen by the American legation .ire the wife and daughter of the late Gen. McClellan and Miss Chanter, the sister-in-law of Atnelie IUves. Agne! IlrxTlXGTON', the American einger from Buffalo, X. Y., who ha? just made a great hit in London as Co plain I'aui Jones in a comic onera, is a tall, fair woman, with splendid sunny hair, deep blue eyes and just twentyfive years of ae. She has pained considernbie reputation as concert sintrer, but 1'nul Jonrs is her first essay in light opera. She will probably join the Carl Rosa company. The Piev. Dr. Parker is making a curious experiment with mid-day meetings for workingmen. They brinsr their dinners and pipes and eat and smoke while he talks to them. Interruptions and questions are always in order. The first meeting wac a big success. Edgar II. Strakosch, business manajjer of the wrecked Kelloge opera company, was married last week at Windsor. Ont., to Helen Avery, the prima donna who served as understudy for Miss Kellogg. Miss Avery made her debut with the Bostonians about two years ago. Harold Marsh. Sewall, U.S. consul general to Samoa, is a man about thirty years of acre, who graduated at Harvard, and later at the Harvard law schieb His father, Arthur Sewall, president of the Maine Central railroad, is the Maine member of the democratic national committee. M. Jacques, the unsuccessful candidate in Taris against Gen. Boulangcr, estimates that his election expenses amounted to 2,000,000 francs, or 100,000. Tho chief expense was for bill-stickine, 100,0t beiusr pasted up every day in competition with a still larger number put up by Boulanger. Rodert Louis Stevenson writes frcmTantira that he has taken to goins: barefoot, and is doing weih In his own words; "I write this just after havintr dismissed OH (the sub-chief, in whose house I live), Mrs. Oli and Pairai, their adopted child, from the evening hour of music, during which I publicly blow on tbe flageolet!" J. Devlin, a train employe on the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, found a pocketbook containing o0,000 last Sunday iia peat of a drawing-room car attached to the eastbound train, due at Albany at 4 :.0 p. m. He returned the money to its owner, J. E. Loft as, a Bostonian, who was returning from the we-. Mr. Loftus handed Devlin $1.000, Republican Ttiieren and Ilj-pocrite. To the Editor Sir: I see much in the Journal about the "political significance" of John E. Sullivan's defalcation. Why does not that worthy paper say something about Newton Tattison, defaulting republican treasurer of Indianapolis (or some others of that ilk)? And why has it never seen any political significance in their defalcations? Why has the Journal, the very moral and moralizing sheet, never spoken of the disgrace thus incurred by the republican party because of the Bjpport the party gave him and the rintr to which he beloneecf (the Slick Six)? Why doesn't that paper say that Harrison is a tool of this same rincr, and why doesn't it further say that Indianapolis lost thousands of dollars by Pattison, which will never be returned, and that Marion county will not lose a cent by Sullivan's action? And, last, why its it a party disgrace when a democrat does any wrong, aud not 6o when a republican does the same? Who is Marion county's '"boss thief," and who is Marion county's "bos-s hypocrite?" And what party supports both? 1L Marion, Ind., Feb. 7. Mr. Dobyns Explains. To THt! Editor Sir: It having appeared in the Shelbyvilla Daily Democrat of to-day that Corte Ewing was nominated at Shelby ville for Joint senator for the purKe of toting for nie against the lion. Jovrph Carson of Shelby county, I want to say to tbe public that I had withdrawn as a candidate for president of the board of benevolent institutions before Mr. Ewin? was nominated, and I am not now a candidate for that position. 1 further want to say that Mr. Ewing Is friendly to the candidacy of Mr. Carson. I am a candidate for trustee of the Insrtne asylum. I was present at tho couvention at Shelbyvillo on lat Saturday, which was called by the chairman of the Shelby county democratic central cotninittoe to nominnte a candidate for joint senator, and that Mr. Kwinj was the nominee of that convention, in which Shelby county was more instrumental than iH-catur; that Mr. F.tvin? was not vkinc the nomination and his friends alone are accountable for it. Mr. Ewins was not present at the convention, neither was lie eeklngthe nomination. Orcensburj?, Fab. 4. Johx L. Dobvjts. TU Very neat. To the Editor .Sir; The Induva State Skstisel is the best democratic paper I hare ever read, aud I have road several. I wish Tub Sextisel and its owners all the success they deserve. Wm. T. Sytsma. Kav't Crossing. Sholhr cotuitr. Jan. 2J.

THE NEVS OF THE WEEK.

Proceeding of Congreu For Week landing Saturday, Feb. O Miscellaneous Items. Monday, Feb. 4. In the senate Mr. Manderson's credentials as senator from Nebraska were presented. The legislative appropriation bill was reported. The Texas election investigation and report thereon from the committee ou privileges and elections were ordered printed. The bill declaring trusts unlawful was debated. Ths Union Pacific funding bill was considered. A conference was ordered on the diplomatic appropriation bill. In the house filibustering was inaugurated by Payson of Illinois, who presented long bills under the call of states and demanded their reading to prevent the suspension of the rules for the passaee of the Union Pacific funding bill. This killed the Sheridan pension bill, the international copyright bill and other measures. The conference report on the amendments to the inter-state commerce law was considered as a privileced matter. Another conference was ordered. The Nicaragua canal report was discussed. Tuesday, Feb. 5. In the senate the Oklahoma bill was reported from the house, and after a struggle for its reference to the Indiau afiairs committee it was sent to the committee on territories. The Union Pacific fundin bill was the regular order, but it was laid aside for the legislative appropriation bill. The conference report on the bill amending the interstate commerce law was presented. In the house the senate amendment to the bill retiring Gen. William F. Smith was concurred in, giving him the rank of major of engineers. The conference report ou the Xicaraugua canal bill was considered. Wednesday, Feb. 6 In the senate the conference report on the Nicaragua canal bill was agreed to. A joint resolution was reported proposing a constitutional amendment to secure woman suttrasre, with a minority report acrainst it. A bill was pr.ssed to remove the charge cf desertion w here soldiers afterward served faithfully. A resolution to appoint a senatorial committee on the inauguration was passed. A bill to provide for writs of error or appeals to the supreme court in all cases involving the question of jurisdiction of courts below was passed. The naval officers' claim resolution was discussed. In the house the senate bill proviJing that public lands subject to private entry 6iiall he disprsed of according to tbe provisions of the homestead laws only, passed. A bill to increase the pension of the widow of Gen. Eraory was passed, notwithstanding Cheadla's attempts to tilibuster. Thursday, Feb. 7. In the senate the president's message on the offer of the Creet Indians to sell their lands was read and referred. The naval officers' claims resolution was discussed and laid over- In the bouse the credentials of Frank 15. Posey of Indiana, Gen. Hovey'8 successor, were presented and the new member sworn in. The conference report ou the Nicaragua canal bill was adopted after a lengthy discussion. An attempt was ni.iJe to take np the bill increasing the pension of the widow of Gen. Emory, but it was prevented. At 5 p. in. the house look a recess, the night session beim devoted to Indian affairs. Friday, Feb. S. In the senate the naval and fortifications appropriation bill were reported. Several District bills were passed. A number of resolutions were agreed to. The bouse bill to quiet titles on the Des Moines rivr lands was debated and passed. A message from the president on Samoan afiairs was read and a number of private pension bills passed. In the house, after unimportant business, the army appropriation hill was considered and passed. At 5 p. ta. the house tools a recess until 7:20 p. m.t the niarht session being devoted to private pension bills. Saturday, Feb. P. In the senate tho credentials of Mr. Ransom of North Carolina were presented and filed. Tho bill to establish a U. S. court in Indian Territory was considered. The fortifications bill was parsed. The Union Pacifio funding bill was discussed. Conferees were appointed on the direct lax till. In the house a number of tiaimportant Li'.'.s were passed. The postofiice appropriation bill was taken up. Minccllaneouii New Item. Senator Beck's health is improving. John Strauss was killed by cars at Wcoster, O., Friday. Bishop Spaulding of Teoria, 111., is in the City of Mexico. Several pers.ins have been whipped by White Caps in Virginia. The steamer ITaytien Republic has arrived in Boston from Hayti. A slight earthquake shock was felt in lower South Carolina Feb. 6. Seven business blocks at Antwerp, N. Y., burned. Loss, :j-75,üt A wild man is creating terror in the mountainous regions of Georgia, Joe Ilorniins, Boston's crack fielder, has accepted an otter from Baltimore. Walter J. Gibson, an insurance agent, committed suicide at Buüalo, N. Y. White Cap notices are being received by prominent men ia Norwalk, Ct. Three persons were arrested at Logansport, Ind., charged with illegal voting. J. N. Knapp's bank at Marquette, Mich., has closed its doors. Liabilities, tJl.OOO. The Americnn residents of the City of Mexico will celebrate Washington's birthday. C. W. Mortcan of Monticello. III., has become insane on the subject of religion. An old man named Michael Florey was killed by cars at Columbus, O., Saturday. The coal-miners alon the Mononsruheia and Youghiogheny rivers have resumed work. Charles Winterburs was shot and killed by George Fender at Kdinburg last Thursday. An old bachelor named Harvnieyer died of starvation near New Bremen, O., last week. W. S. Bradley of Chicago fhot and killed his wife and then committed suicide last week. The works of the Standard oil company at Constable Hook, N. Jn burned. Loss $3J,X. A woman named Lockhart, while sick in bed, was attacked by a road dog at Hrazil, lnd. Henry Ogden, a merchant at Laketon, Ind., was chloroiormed and robbed of fJ.OOO. Friday. "Santly" noffman, a notorious thief, was arrested t Tiffin, O., for stealing railroad tickets. Ex-Senator Windom is quoted ns saying- that no offer of a cabinet position has been made to him. Samnel Loos has been arrested at Canton, O., for enticing a sixteen-year-old girl from her home. Judge A. W. Hücker was arrested and fined at Denver, Col., for assaulting an editor named Arkins. The Hon. James G. Blaine has an option, expiring Feb. 7, on the Seward mansion in Washington. At Pigeon reek. W. Va., William MeNVdy fatally stabbed John Chafers, the result of an eld fued. The Rev. Dr. Henry V. Satterlee ot Calvary church, New York, has been elected bishop of Michigan. The Hon. James A. Scott was fined $37.40 at Frankfort, Ky., for slapping a man named Stahlman. Thirteen counterfeiters have been captured in Butler county, Pennsylvania, within the past ten da;-3. Charles Smith, the Cannelton (lnd.) murderer, condemned to hang March 22, has escaped from jail. Miss Esther Abrains has sued Lester Strains of Cleveland for breach of promhe. She wants $5,000 damages. Samuel Fisher has been arrested at Danville, 111., on a charge cf killing a young farmer named Osborne. Ernest B. Tingle was sentenced at Lexington, Ky., to ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary for murder. The remains of a murdered man, partly eaten by hogs, were found in the woods near Acworth, O., Friday. The Hon. John C. New of Indianapolis is in New York. He says that his visit has no political significance. Gardner Ayres, employed in an elevator at Indianapolis, was pround to pieces last Saturday in a corn-shelier. Jesse Smith, a wealthy farmer, livinjr near Frankton, Ind., has deserted his family and tloped with a widow. James K. Harley, an artist, said to be by bis first wife related to Senator aud Gen. Sherman, suicided at Baltimore. Gen. Harrison will not be able to visit Cincinnati en route to his inauguration as he had at first intended to do. William Ritter hanged himself at Terre Haute, Ind., last week. He had just been released from jail, where be had been placed on a charge of attempting to kill his wife. Capt. James E. Waller, private secretary to Gov. Lee of Virginia, was found dead in bis ollice with a bullet hole in his head last Thursday. No cause is assigned for the deed. The new hotel Sutherland, at Sutherland, Fla., waa destroyed by fire Feb. 7. A party of

excursionists from Omaha lost their baggage, and Beveral ladies were severely burned. Joe Aidt, on trial at Bucyrus, O for killing William Jones in September last, was convicted of manslaughter. James Ross, colored, w as hanged Frid? y at Brandenburg, Ky., for the murder of a wealthy bachelor named Rhodes. Chauncey M. Pepew s-iys that, so far as ha knows, the Big Four road has not been absorbed by the Yauderbiits. Christina Togosh, a half-breed, hss been outraged by five Indians and lherailv torn to pices at Little Current, Ont. Inspector RmfieM aal Capt. Schaack of Chicago, charged with corruption in oliice, have been indefinitely suspended. Fannie Bryant and Albert Patterson hav been indicted as accomnliccs in the Uawes taurderat Birmingham, Ala. .Two life convicts escaped from the Jeilersonviile (ind.) penitentiary ty sawing their way out. They were recaptured. There is a belief at Detroit that the position of secretary of war has been otlereJ to Gen. Alger, and that he will accept it. Prank Gray, aged ten, was fatally injured at Chattanooea, Tcnn., by bein? struck oa the head by a moving freight train. -An attempt was made bv an unknown person to blow up the house of Dr. Thoraas E. Buck of St. Louis with dynamite. The president has referred the department of agriculture bill u the attorney general for ta opinion as to its constitutionality. Col. Robert G. Ingersoll delivered an address at the funeral of Mrs. Mary II. Fiske, in New lork. It was a very eloquent eilort. A delegation from Kansas called on Gen. Harrison Friday to urge the r.ppointment ot Senator Plumb to a cabinet position. George W. Vanskiver, aged seventy-two, has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment ia the Indiana penitentiary for forgery. Fritz Ruehl, aged sixteen, confessed at New lorkthathe murdered a six-year-old boy at Landsburg, Germany, in November, lS, The "Providence home" and other buildings belonging to the St. Mary's institute, near Terre Haute, Ind., were damaged by lire Feb. 7. Nice and Watson, bunko men, have teen sentenced two years each ia the Michigan penitentiary for a bunko gaaie at Detroit. Charles F. Orbauu, a new'oy, pot a twrntv. thousand-dollar verdict against th Philadelphia traction company for ihe loss of a k-g. A wreck occurred on the 1, N. A. & C. railroad at Oakland, 1 nd., Thursday. A brakeman was killed, mi l r. conductor seriously injured. Ed Stevens, a hotel clerk at It ishville, I::d., was arrested oa a charge of robbing the sa "e at ahuul where he formerly clerked, in Paris, Albert Tull, n ge l thirteen, was killed while hunting on bis father's farm near Fairland, Ind., by the accidental discharge of a gun. Yic?-Preident-elect Morton has leased a furnished dwe'bng in Washington fr iti-e during inauguration wo-.k, and paid i.yJ tor the week. Suit has been brought at Steubenville, O.. to test the right of a natural gas company to refuse to Mipply luanui'uctarers with whom it has contracts. The Carpenters.' nnions of Chicago will repeat their demand of a year ao for an eighthour day and 35 cents &a hour as tue ramiiJura wages. A son-in-law of the late Gov. Williams of Indiana has been sued for $!2,0 X) damages for an alleged criminal assault ou a woman named Mullen. An indictment has been found, at Indianapolis, against Joseph A. Moore, the defaulting agent for the Connecticut Mutual insurance company. A combination of Boston and Kansas City capitalists have purchased 3g,u"0 acres of laud near Ft. Payne, Ala., and organized a coal aud iron company. The democratic county convention of Butler county, thi, held at Ilsnidton, Feb. indorsed the H'n. dailies E. Campbell as a candidate for governor. George Cooper pleaded cuiity at Grcensburg, Ind., to the charge of parsing counterfeit money find was wntenced to hve years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. The governor ot Missouri bts pranted a respite of sixty da to William Va!ker and John Matthe a s, the Bald Kacubcrs, under sentence to hng Feb. 15. A woman named Stephenson has brought suit at Marioii, lit 1., aga:n-t a young farmer named ItejnuMs for alleged breach of promise She wants t'.3,tAJ damages. The Monong;..hcla river coil operators are considering the formation of one large company, to include all the in i n3 on the Monougahela, and forai a big end trust. Iliro'd M. Sewa'l, consul general to the Samoan Islands, has been asked to resign, on the ground that Iiis views ars '"not ia harmony with th&ie of the administration." A girl giving h-r name as Cora Wilson, and claiming to be the daughter of a prcsbvurian minister in, Ohio, was arrested at Hutchinson, Kas., for passing counterfeit money. After his retirement as private secrr-tary to President Cleveland, Dan Lntnnnt wiil, it ia said, devote his time to railroading, anil not to insurance business, as has been reported. Feb. 16 has been fixed as the date nhen th Traveling Men's protective nssociaiion will present their numerous petitions to Gen. Harrison, asking the appointment of Mahlen J. Pickerinjr ot Philadelphia as one of the menbt:rs of the interstate railway commission. Two indictments have been returned at Indianapolis against Suhivun. the absconding clerk one for eniberling the trust funds of the county, and the other tor obtaining money upon forged warehouse receipts. Siilivan is believed to be in New Mexico instead of Canada. While counting the vote for governor in the West Virginia legislature Thursday, the republican members withdrew from the joint session. The point of order was made that no quorum was present, but the speaker ruled that inasmuch as a quorum of the members was in and about the hall and building, there was a fpuirum present, and ordered the canvass to jroc?ed. At the close of the week there was a moderate volume of business in local commercial cire'es. without new features. Provisions were dull and eafy, but not pressed for sale; flout sold well and ruled firm, wheat remained steady, corn and oats unchanged, rye more active, and barley steady. Groceries were moderately active and steady. Dairy products were in fair demand and firm. The nioue market was changed but little. Government bonds remained 6trong, but quiet. The New York banks lost over four million in reserve. The latest foreign budget says that in th? trial of Pat Mslloy, for perjury before the Parnell commission. Convict Delaney testified that several noted Irish leaders were members of the invinc:bles, counseled murders and furnished means. Subscriptions to the new company issue of Panama canal shares have utterly failed, and De Lesseps has written a circular letter to sharthoMers stating that the old company's affairs will have to be left to the liquidator. The French chamber will consider scrutin d' arrondissement to-morrow, and revision a w eek after. It is stated that Gladstone will not go to Rome, because the Italian government opposes it, fearful of the result of on interview between him nnd the pop. Another attack on Suakim is projected by the rebels. Smith, government leader in the cosimons, has issued a circular calling upon conservatives to be present ot the opening cf parliament oa the gist as business of grave importance will come up.

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