Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 18, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 31 March 1876 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER,

C. DOANE, Publish!-. - - INDIANA JASPKIl, ITEMS OF INTEREST. i'arauital a ad Uurrjr, r.rt t llarto's tales ami poem have appeared in Kuviii in two translations Mile. Ie l.i Katne, better known as 41 Ouili," h.n been married to a Kusian gentleman. Mrs. Itclknap had engaged for the season u cottage near tho l'cipjot House, New London, I't. The engagement will probably be canceled. Mr. .James Partem'?) pctitios to the Massachusetts legislature for a special act to legilie Jim marriage, haa been reported adversely by thu committee which had it in charge. At the Washington' birthday ball in Kit-hmond Miss Kli.abeth Hyrd Nicholas represented Lady Sarah Fairfax, and in her pocket carried two letters from tumoral Washington to that lady. Mrs. Ilolloway, who was during President Johnson s term a member of his familv at the White-House, is now on the editorial staff of tho Urooklyn I'liylf, and is a bright and accomplished journalist. (iratii't Washburne, tho newly appointed I'nited States Secretary of legation at M. Petersburg, who.su recent visit to this country as tho agent of a circus cuiun itiv eatiM'd much comment, has, it. i been forced to resign by y f ).. j-( t n,. 'fiM.i( vt(w Miiit'r Trance. A Walitn-t'!,i correspondent cf the New Vork ll'o-A remarks that he never saw a inure ;n:ittcr-of fact, serious person in bis life than Proctor Knott. J'hc hero of pi'uth is a cry common-place, oldi-h-I-i'ikiii' i.i.iii. who wears plain clothe, ues plain language, and draws as little publivj attention to himself as possible. Wu.lrn Stevens Kohinson, will known under the nmn .: lnmc of 44 Warrington." as h newspaper correiiionileut, ili'il a few davs since at Maiden, Miss. Ilis letters have Ion; been wii'.ilv kii-e.vn and admired throughout the I'ni'cu S;(t'', and his death leaves a blank in journalism which can not well be bind. Like most of the great artistes of the world, 'hai lotte ( 'ushinan's success came from the humblest beginnings. Very early in life she directed the choir of what w.i- formerly known as the "Cockerel" Church, in Itostoti. This was at tin- time when Ha'.ph Waldo Kmerson, t hen a young man and unknown, wis :t eolleairue of the lie v. J)r. Ware, this ba ing been his only pastoral charge. It was little thought then that the modest young preacher and the unknown young Milder in tho choir, at a salary of probably three dollar per week, would become so famous all over tho world! Mrnr anl loclMatr). A man in Noilhampton County, Ph., has contracted to ship 75,'hj chxd hlatc to Japan. St. Louis is to have the largest llosscmer steel works in the world, which will giro employment to over 1.00 men. The bo is d'are: of Tox&z i pronounced the most durable wood in tho world. It neither shrinks nor swells from cxjo.sure to heat, wet, or Cold. A postmaster at Sunbury, Pa., has invented an ingenious postal labor-saving machine, w hicli receives letters a they are 44 dropped" by the Headers and affiles tho proper stamp. A piece of scroll ivory veneering, GO feet long and 10 inches wide, containing nearly ,'A) mpiare. feet of hiirfaep, was hawed from an elephant' tusk tho other day at Peep Kivt r, Conn. The Directors of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad have decidtsl to cbango that road from a broad to a nanow gauge. The work will cost about l,2.V),0oii. The Trie iHrectora have decided to lay another nil from Lliuirat liuffalo, ')7 miles, and this is probably only a prcetinor to the change of giu, over the whole road. The lead miners of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa propose to unite in procuring for the Centennial Kxposition a largo and varied collection of specimens of ore, to represent tho whole lead district of (10 mile in diameter, or an area of JJ.tioo mm are miltvs, situated in ten prosperous counties! of three adjacent States. A vecy ingenious method of manufacturing screwa is described in an LMjnburgh journal, as having been recently and successfully introduced. l'y this plan the screw, instead of being made, as ordinarily, by cutting away the iron of the bolt to leave the thread, is formed by rolling the screw on the bolt blank while hot, a process by which, it is claimed, a ercat economy of time and labor is elici ted, llccent experiments have also Known, it is said, that the unile strength and tho holding power, in both hard and softwood, of rolled screws are considerably greater than those of cut ones. An exchange gives a a reason whr paint peels from buildings that nearly all the oil now sold as pure linseed is largely mule up of porgy oil. Tho nature of this tish-oil is entirely dillerent from that made from need, and it doc. not dry nearly no readily. Paint a surface with load and porgy oil, and in a few hours you can pass tho hand lightly over it with impunity, but press the linger on it and push Hlightly, and you will lind, even after it has been on several

days, that the paint ban not "net," but the outer akin can be easily removed, leaving that next the wood a soft nearly tu when first put on. Tho way to prevent tho paint from peeling off in to let each coat and particularly the first remain from teiidays toaeveral wocka before applying another coat. Mr boo I aad Charrh. Miss Margaret Twing reads sermons Sundays to tho congregation at Montville, Mass., which is without a pastor. The Kev. Dr. Hall is opposed to having separate church services foi children, but he thinks that every sermon Khould have a certain regard to their capacities and needs. Tho proposition that tho nlaee of ft female teacher marrying nnall, ipso fut, become vacant, was adopted as one of tho rules of the Brooklyn Board of Kducation, the other day. The Catholic Synod of Iierne, Switciland, has unanimously resolved to abolish tho celibacy of priests, the obligatory oral confession, and the wearing of tho priestly gown. Tho Unitarian Church at IJrooklield, Mass., has decided unanimously to substitute water for wine at the communion, and to abolish the deaeonate, creating instead a 44 pastoral council." The Rev. Dr. Kichard S. Storrs has resigned the Presidency of the American Congregational Tnion, ami liis directorship of the Home Missionary Society. The cause of this action is the interpretation of Congregational policy by the recent Advisory Council held in Dro-d:! n. A camp-meeting is to be held at Dennett, Neb., bytbe National Holiness Association, commencing dune Icnnett is 1" miles southeast of Lincoln, upon the Missouri Pacific llailroad. I 'lie railroad couipauy lias agreed not to run Sunday trains to the campground. The pastors of the churches in Camden, Oueiil i County, N. Y.Jiave nii'ted iu a card to the public, urging them to discontinue Sunday funerals. Thy object to them for four reasons: That tln'v overtax mini-tors; mar or displace the regular church services , break in upon the PiMe .schools, and seculaii.e the Sabbath. Ilafia and Mlihapi. Aa Saunders who lives near Sanford, I ml., was chopping down a tree. Ilis little son was playing near by, and when tho trve fell it struck him on the bead, killing bin) instantly. Kddie Darictt, 8 years old, of Wayland, Midi., went into tho wood with bis grandfather and was instantly killed by the limb of a tree falling, striking bini'on the t ight temple. While .John Might, of Kenton, (., w.ss riding along in a ungon, a limbfcU from atrei! and struck him onthehe-d, causing almost instant death. Five others were in the wagon with him, but escaped uninjured. At Milwaukee, a few days ago, a girl named Josephine I-s-ich, an employee in a spice mill, was ascending upon tho elevator, when her head got caught between the railing und the lloor, crushing out licr brains. .Jacob Kbe, an employe in a Columbus (0.) ax factory, w'as eaugLt in tho belting of a shaft and whirled around a dozen times or more, each time being d.ihed against a wall. His injuries were fatal. Mrs. John Straub, of I'rbana, (., being ill, lu r daughter was directed to give her no me medicine, lly some mistake !he got hold of a bottle containing tho od of bitter almond and administered a do.ve of the fatal liquid, from the effects of which her mother (lied in -0 minutes. A little PotUvillo (Pa.) boy named William Sibbet, aged between 3 and 4 years, met with a (lingular and tragic death. It appears that Tie seized a handful of coffee, and crammed a lot of it in liis mouth. One of the grains made iu way into his windpipe, and in spite of all that could be done for him he died in a Khort while.

One reason why the Turk don't light better is because they have to stop so often and hitch up their bagtrowserri. They arc to have suspenders. A strange old bibliopole died in Vienna a hhort time ago. He conducted an eating-house, waiting personally upon his customers, and yet lie collected a library of IM.OOU volumes, many of them editions of rare value. Ojioen Victoria has informed Lord DuR'erin that she will assist in the projected improvement in Quebec by presenting the city with .(i,") for the construction of one of the- proposed city gates, the one for which it is used to be called the Kent gate. Liverpool is the trvet densely populated town in (Ireat Britain, having'J'J.l inhabitants to an acre; (Ilasgow comes next, w ith 811.1 ; then follow Manchester with 8:1.1, Kditiburg with .ro..r, Nottingham with 1G. 'J and London with 4'.7. Tho Time cf lndii tells of some Siamese noblemen who, at an entertainment given them by a Kuropcan merchant at Bangkok, were ro hrritiud at the cvratian of a Highland lling and an Irish jig that were darn ed, that they tied from the bouse, believing that the foreigner had gone mad. The Chicago Post think that women have more mental work to perform than men. It must wear the brain to pnt a border on a lamp-mat.

WIANTISM! Thai I.aag Arraignment f Administration of th I'a.t Mvvtn War-ll rlinn, atrafea, lutmaraliti and ru tit arrrwat. 'Iivcial t'orrepndenf of tbe N. Y. World.) W-AMiilNUTov, March 11. The Jargon of nrwsmers wbUh explain ltelkitup in tbo iutercKt of party can Hot much louder conreal from public nprehviiKi'in the true dlxee of the American body politic frm which llt'lkuap and other olucial uiktul rone . Tho (lifogsA U Ojuntism. (leueral (Irant, ttncrnlior from dissipation ami olenntv in a turbulent time, ascended to military lank and achieved uiilittry sue-

ci'M tjy frrim obstinacy and a lavish us of prre n lac kit and human live. It will oiih day le neon that bo actually prolong! aud ailded to tho coat of tiie war for the Union. His rrsonal iu-iulntuiice was used hy dishonest ijiiartcrinahtcrM, cumniUharici of nubkintence, rontractora, sutler and othe tLlovendepe ndent uMn military operation for the enornioua fortune they axHuitmiUtpd at the f xp-ne of the aoldier and the Government. Tho very man whose doui is now to follow that of tho lat Secretary of War m then in high military position at Grant' iile. Ilia administration aa President hni been marked not only by the xame xtutlriineH and waste that dUtimfuUhed his part in the conduct of tho war, lut, of course, by much greater blunders arr4 aeaieiaU. The future historian, necliitf this time iu perspective, will iiceni In it the culmination f the heedleksnex, moral dullneoN, wldenpread Isrnoranee of the true principle if ;overnnielit, PiicceKsful deniaoiruery, public knavery and theft, liNihO leisldtioii and loope-haiolcd rulcrrhip, (MM-lai folly and extravagance and general drunken froluit-oii. Uiicti tharuoterie the end of the txperimeutal century of the UcpiiMir. That culmination, I repeut, l fUltANTISM ! lieclnniiix with mistakes (like the uner.iit.tituti.n:l appointment of r. A. T. St.-w-art to ie Seei etary of the Treasury) which (lenoled not inereiy ins f'irctfuiiie d liie rod i itieiitary principle! of government ami of iiie ro iriuint of 1 tie organic law which West Point taught llilll, out ul-O hi-lilr:il olitiisenes and l.o k of a proper notion (f liis treat stewardship, lie announced by bis Mihs-tn-nt acts, as plainly as h could have iriM-laiined in words; '! am (irant and thi in lay poertiuieiit. I have earned this place; t'ie people have piid me for my eervicca by putt in me in It; nnd I prnpo.e t run it tu unit nivef, my family and mv friends." Ic lining to i booe bit Cabinet rein aniotijr men trusted ly the party who t-U-ci-til liimainl whom tint oppt-itio!i could not h.ive seriously objected lo see in men bi'.'h t.llii e, lie fathered about him a heads of the executive department a ealt.tl of eMIlies. Vahloriic, wbo-e nrvlics to (irint and the Kepuhlicutl part V h id been COIl-idlTitde, mill whose abiliiicK (thouch of tha third j eisj am uoi anoei ner misui nou nriue trmporaiy administration of the Iiepartmerit of State, was the only tolerable person intiie firt eerie of (irant'a lninistem ai-t-rd to their place by a sen iie Senate, liemoved to I'aris. lie gave jdaee to a man vx ho lias ince liecn the one prop in Ids executive hou-ehold that lias by re-pcctability, untarnished honor, conervatim and patriotism rooted bark far in the annul of a tunl? .American familv, prrxented the Incident from ln-ing fully recogtiicd an (he Incapable he is. The Cabinet Mected and mtintained by (jrant ha tn-cn ttie xviirst, and in mmie respects the most ridiculous, known in any country in uiodem times. It has included: Cremrtll, the hep. of the t horpenuiiig contract and other Job; il"oims, the Attorney-General from Oregon, w tiose ue of the public money in ur iilinj; bis wife with a private landaulet and misapplieation of the fuuds of his depart itient for electioneering usea In the Sout hern Statea compelled the people to demand hi resignation; e.'dno, who was forred to retire by unrefined eharrea of corruption in connection with the Indian upplie; H'lUtirrll, thetiroton prefer, and as ad-dle-patcd a meddler with bnauce a we read of: I!ichard'n, Iloutwell'a acandaloua ueeessor, who was rewarded for hi compelled resignation by an appoint mciit as Jmieof tlie I' nirtof ( laims; y'n, tle Kood-natured old Frenchman, who found himself too much out of bis depth and comfort ( Mick in the Navy Department, even to pieaae (irant; liohnon, whotueoeeded liorie, and w hose nialadminlstrmtlon of the navy and navyyards ha ks asloned a continued aerie a of uglr charge and constant public diacoutt nt; (iz.er Chamtltr, of MicLigan; and lKt.KN4P ! The only roan of eatabllshed character except Mr.'rish who haa been appointed by (irant to the Cabinet was Cox, of Ohio', who, early perceiving that tho refortnna ho was dipord lo atart were Moutly and ibatuelcly oppoaed in the vtry heart of the AdruloiHtratlon, relrned in t rrow and disgust . Itriatow and l'ierrepont are mill on trial. The undent reporta are atloat concernin( the action of Jude rierrepootio rosjH i to the Habcork case. lie will have to dispoae clearly of the charge of aitln tho rrealdeiifa military aerreiary In hla defence before be can be fid in the public nottriia of the taint of (irantiam. From tho Cabinet outward through every (iuvernuient department tho evil of (iraulIkiii have made themselves felt. The wrong Inflicted upou tbo S tith; the rilixn of car pet-bait Governors like Moaei, lloltiianaad Auks; tbo military uperviion of fraudulent elections ami military protection of bogus Slate I,eullature ; the Louisiana outrage; other Federal opprcalon, all having the effect to fnIM upon the Southern poaple ruler not of their choice, to -nd a Southern Senators and "Kepre. aentattvea" to Wasbinirton a net of m hi-iu-liios iM'iiuiidrel and inoramue whose eleo tiooswere Imtintit, and to heap up I urdcus of debt and discomfort upon Southern men and women w hich in t lie tinwl.i'i pod and energetic North would liave provoked andtli r civil war theNe aro anions the fruitk of 1 rin li m. l'ovverful rhnr. r present In preat rrportiioiis, nuoiopolies and orrsiiiedeoiubiii'ilions to plunder the Treasury, appeared. They pradiially eamo to own every avenue Undine to tho M'hito House, and for live years they have absolutely controlled the ttovernmcot . Tho Custom-House King, the Indian Ilin?, the Credit Mobllcr liimj, tie Northern Pari tie Railroad Kinir, th Histrict if Colombia lline, the Tension liitnr, the p.t-flbe Klnr, the Navy-Yard Kin;; an l the Whisky KiiiR. have held the machinery by which the Republican party organization is run, have nominated governors mid members of Congress, acnl to the Senate tlodr retained attorney, and contributed the at aums of money by which elections were fraudulently carried and counted. Il Is estimated, aeeordinjt to pd authority, that at least per cent, of the entire revenues, foreign and domestic, hat been stolen, or diverted from the Treasury by fraud at t tie custom-houses and 'he Intern al revenue oilier. The t 'oinniissioner of Cutnmi atated in an otlb-ial report that the customs wore defrauded m'trc thin one

hundred ami fioen'y milliunt trtry ymr. Contract for kiipphc In all department of the piddle service, which count up by Una of millions, are manipulated by these riti'x, eacbof which haa iu pc-ialtv, and all combine against the Treatury. It la now commonly reported that a ."inic nearest t lie President, compoMod of his most intimate perfeoual frieiida, like Horace K. I'ortt-r, l'.lcock, ttosa Shepherd, Itnfus Inalla and others, has made hundreds of thousand of dollur ly farming out -ttieea which t i rant w as induced to i vo to t tie pav eci. Su' h are kpeciiuen fruits of (irantixrn.

The I'reeident official favora to members of hisowu and hi vvife'a faiuilf ! ly becaino a notorious a bi com r.lni-anee to ward his cronies outaide of that dome.tie circle. j:rotber-iu-law;aey 'a conofciiou with the wort pbasn of posilelluui Mis-is-flppl x!itic. the domltiion of the petit at the White Mouse, the monopoly in Indian tradersbip ((iven toOrvil (irant, the career of Cramer as a foreign Minister, and worse than all, the persoiul eompllcatioii of the l'n sideut lii.n-elf with the atrfH-ious lilaek Friday speculation, hi which his brother-in-law Corhin tigured along wllh Kick and tioijld the.e but partially illustrate tho baleful Influence of the (irant family upon our Government andaos-ial concerns. The list of uensienariea upon the Cniu-d States Treasury, related by Uea of bbxid and nurrlage to (irant, onee nunibered between tw enty aud thirty, and the lateat Instance of nepotism wa the promotion of the president's tldetd aon, Fred, (who left West Point with very moderate honor), to be Lieutenant-Colonel over the Leads of a score f trrav-haired veterans. 1 The robbery of the merchant of New York by Mnded warehou-eni'ii authorized directly from Waahlwrton; the shameful exposure in connection with the monopoly of Leet k. locking; the case ,f Ipxlge, who stole half a million within a hundred yards of the. White Iloii-e; the scandal of the Freedinau'a r.ijreau under the direc tion of Parson-tiencral Howard; the over!-aring : and corrupt career f the Wa-hiiurton liit g, I ami the charge, io-vi r siicei .sfiiby refute 1, I .f.4ili'iut l...k.ka . J rv..l.-n, . IS.ibcot k, in ( oniii ciinii with 1 lie measurement of public work in Wishi niton, pro-, long hut do not complete the index to the I setie of miserable sctieno ngsin-t the! Treasury and public right iu which (irant's intimate s have ever since his accession tollie Presidency been ei-gaged. i Meis vxa exi Im 1 from the Quarter-' inasti r-tieni lalship that " KuJ " Inbuilt i might be put iu. Murphy wa set at the bead of tho New York t'utoio-!Iou-e fori u.j other apparent reason than that he ne'it get ri'di and be on hind to hub-nob with the President at bmg liraiu-h. These are further fruits of (iratimn the fruits of t iovernniei.t p:.i led ove r by an uutockcd, uncoltivated. inir gultcd mind. Utilised to meditation -eu iiu liie .'ital problems of civ il law and order, regarding the most exalted put. lie station as a disciiary of juibli" favors instead of a gaiardinu! over the natioii d welfare. So overawing is (ij.uitism, that it ha subdued not only the government of State but tle-ir courts, and at lut It obtained control ove r the highe st court to which Amciiran can appeal. Tie: sutservienc-y of Culled States J . i lgea in Southern States ha passed Into notoriety; the defere nce of Judge lilon to every point that reu.Id be coi.struedin I'.alN'iM'k'a favor is adtnitt-d by lawver who have studied his e harge ; aud the packim; of the Supreme Court by lraut fcr the plain purpose of obtaining from a new majority of that tribunal the reversal of a well-eon-sidered and righteou dee iion. i a tower- j ins? iucidciit of the country a, or rather the Kepablican party 'a, hame. Cmgress, very aoon after (irant inaugu ration, bee-ame the aeene of audi Icgispuive isolations upon the Treasury, ami directly upon the people, a have been witnessed in no other civilized country. 'Wa-h-In'tein, and the hall of the Capitol, were crammed with lobbyist who pressed iipxin Senator aud nictut-era of the lioiue alternate argument and eduetioiia. The int -rest at atake were, in khiid instances, ao enormous that va.-t Hums were hazarded to procure favorable legislation; no that under unprecedented ecnnlarr temptations the colix ience of men of high talenta and staiules reputations succumlied along with the weaker conscience of the ma of the majority in power, itra'nsand brill'ant speeches and t tie vote tbat gave bilge subsidies to powerful corporations w ere bouirht w Ith greenbacks, bond and stock. For umptuou and often for tx-aly brilx-s men honored by the natlomoldthcmaelve heedlessly or delilverately away. In the Credit M obi licr investigation tbe then Vice-President Cdfas, tbe late Vice-President Wilson, lawes, Kelley,, Allison, Bingham, Patterson, Sehodehi and olhera were found with the acrip and the magnificent dividend in their posseaalon Not a department or revenue of Cavernraent is free from the rune, the atrocg Influence of (irantlsm. The Kepublican party i ruten witb It. Tbe Republican majority in tbe Senate haa fur year been under it. One by one the veterans, tbe earnest. Indomitable men of tbat party of whom the whole country wa reas naldy proud the Kauuners, tbe Trumbull, the Sc-burze have len ostracized to make wray for mere servile baugers-on and wbitewashera of the Wb'te House. Including Cameron. Cock ling, Morton, Logan, Mierinan, KJmunds, and tlio low Senatorial interlopjer from the South. The patronage of tie ( internment. distribuUxl through these men, was used to aggrandize (iraut and to keep the Senate subservient lo his w ill. To-day there is not one oft bene Senator who ejoe not look moreto (irant than to Id State for towrr; and Conkling and Morton, both ambitious for the Presidency, are ready ti aurrender their dubious chauoea of obtaining the next Republican uoiiilnatlou for the certaiuty of something Mire under tiraut, should he be i the favorite candidate I I'x lkiiap'adow nfall the first throb of the earthquake which I to up-t the fatrie of ( rant ism may set rltiena rt lJeeting vip n a hundred indication of w rot. g -doing under (rant's Administration, rumors aud assertion of vxhiili have passed by their ears unheeded like whiitling wind. If Ibe Ii niocratle House eif licpresentativcs stick sternly to its policy of investigation it will discover under every atone it turns a congregation of ugly grub. It w ill tin I the Navy 1 1 nartinciit e-ateu through by barnac les', and it certainly ought, among either t li'ngs, to insist Upon a deep Investigation of It iueon' alleged loan of a million of the isenple'a money today Cooke & Co. with no security but a lot of oi l iron. It oui:ht t hunt out the reconlsof ttif Attorney-iteneral'a cdllce, especially since NYllliam tsvk charge t lie re, mill In tbo departments of the Treasury and the Interior it may uavail sinks of fraud and Ini piity. There I no room whatever to doubt that all lep:trt metit of tbe Federal (ioverr.iuent are Inf. -ted with JiM such guilt a every frienel of Ueneral Ite-lkuap Is tortured to hear he tins confessed. The cost of all thli to the people of the whole, country has been fearful, t'or, be it remembered, the peo7e have to pay every dollar w hich K'ea into the ioeket of dishonest otlicial and will -h is directed by dis. honest legislators into the band of iunpnI list. Lat year the not ordinary expendi

ture ef the Government were f 171 ,H,4H, ami the interest on the puUle clei.t via lo.i,e.i3..'so toul, $-.T4.C.VJ.3y.l . We are paying fr war expen twenty-four million more than in liO, with absolutely nothing to show far it except military usurpation iu tbe Houtb and dilatory movement on the Western plain. 1'he nav? cost netcrly ten million more than it uaed to, and (relatively) a igore worthlesa iiivy wa never launched. Tbe Indian iSuresii r..t five miilioiia more than It did in lse. or even lo lsaj and th! witha wnstant decrea-eof the Wc.te-in Indian population J. Ji. S. A Well-Posted IIoj. History never jumps over Petroit. The re are too many old b.tttl "jrounds around here for the historian to o;et past without at least a few paragraphs. The fi'ht at liloody Kun has been widely read of, nncl atranera often ask to have the locality I'intecl out. Yesterday a man who dropped ofTa stretear at the Jefferson Avenue bridge? to look -round ami let menieiry carry him hack to Indian days felt anxious to know how the light came to lie called Hloodv Kun. Iiy and by a boy came slainniin:r alonr, and the stranger beckoned to him and asked : " Snny, is this Illoody liun?" " You are bloody right it L,' u the rejoinder. "ltight around here Is wbere the Ilritish troop-iwere, is it?" 'Yes, sir; and down in the gully there were the bloody Injuns." "And they fought?" iJloody s:ure. They didn't come here to play, you lied.1' "Was there much loss?" " A bloody big- one." "Can von tell me," continued the ftranjrer looking around, "why they eaii u i.iooety liunr'-' "Yes, sir ; cos when them aoMiers found there was tea Injun s to one white man they run so bloody f.i-t th it yon -an liml old boot-heel.s around here yet?" Tho stranger my have taken some away a relics. He was fen huntirg upund down' the street. Detroit Frte I'rt."s. a How lo IHscorer Altered Writing. A cliseovery is announced by a French chemi.-t to which recent events give a jecial interest. lis value lies in its application to the discovery of alteration in writing; that are snnected with having bveu tampered with. The coloring matter of ordinary ink consists chiefly of a combination of tannic; acid with oxide of iron. M. (Jobert has discovered that however skillfully anv writing may have been erased, suflielent traces of the irouoxiele always remain to appear in a photographic image, though they may he totally invisible to the eye m the original paper. He presented a- an illustration a bond drawn fori do francs, which had been altered to 5, am francs and so negotiated. The original paper bore no suspicious appearance, und the closest ocular insjKvtion failed to detect anv trace of the figures that had been erased". Hut on a photograph of the same paper the figures lu5 w ere plainly discernible, mingled with and partlv obscured by the later figures substituted for them. The light reflected from the surface onee etained by ink, though indistinguishable by the eye, affect. the photographic materials differently from that rejected from the paper w here the ink has not touched it. It is believed that a photograph will always settle the question whether a suspected paper haa been altered by erasure. A Treacher, Awakenlus: from Sleep, Makes A Fatal Leap. Yesterday morning at 11:45 o'clock, as the passenger tra.n on the Kansas IVitic Koad was Marting from Bismarck, about three-ejuartera of a mile east of Lawrence, Sir. Kidgeway, the I load master, saw a man atcp off the train and fall under the car. The train was at once stopped, and upon goin back the body of a ruaa waa found lying; in a ihapelei mw upon the track, lie had evidently, in his attempt to jump clear of tho train from one of the central car-, fillea backward and under the remaining ones, the wheels of which passed over hit head and one of his shoulders, crushing and mangling him in a most horrible manner. Tho remains were conveyed to I.awrence, aud were at onco recognized. The unfortunate man was the llev. Mr. Clark of Armstrong;, Kna, who wa at the time of tho accident on his way t Lawrence, to attend the M. K. Conference. It b supposed that he had been sleeping, and when awakened by the stoppage and starting of the train at Hismarck thought he ha I arrived at

his destination, and jumped, not on the phtform at Iwrenee, but into the cold embrace of death. Ixatmuforth Tunis. Democratic Conjtrresslonal Committee. Washington, March It). -The Ooiirelonat 1 leniocratie Committee announce thai it la now fully organized for the residential enipi.Mi, and re.jueats Iieinoerttlc ortsnizations in all the Sate and Territories to tend in the names of rreu'ir committee? immedUtelv. Application l r documents, apeeehe atid other political matter, and all communications relating to business of the committee, should I addressed t- tbe Secretary at 121 F street, Washimon City. Kditors who m.v aend their newspswr to the roinmittee will te furnished wiui all the dM?umrnts puhli-hed hy tliein. At Dunlciiih, Iowa, the other day, two little girls, daughters of .1. Paugelniier and Mr. Iliv-elburt, employees in the railway depot, went down to see their fathers, and being shortly missed search was instituted when their I. teles bodies wero foiia I on a saud-bar below the to-r. They hid wandered to tho river and probably getting on t a pa.ising cake of ice wero carried away and drowned.)