Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 22, Number 1, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 December 1879 — Page 3

"WEEKLTCOURIER C. MAKE, aillikr. JASPER, - - - INDIANA. Jir. Hayss aaa ClTil'Serrlce Refena. Civil-service roform occupies rather more than a column and h half of the """"President's message; so that, whatever N may be aald of the quality of the dissour.se, tlie quantity is sufficient to ) jsaliiify tlio meat exacting demands. One important omission, however, is I noticeable at thu outset. In alluding I to competitive examinations, for thu . purpose of securing from the crowd of f oHiee-seekers the most efficient public servants, thin usage is traced to England, and no further. The credit of originating it belongs to a Nation it is now fashionable for Americans to despise the Chinese who had competitive examinations when England was scarcely emerged from semi-barbarism. I t'is just as well to place the credit whore it belongs, in a matter of such interest and inijwrtanee; especially ns these examinations have in China produced the desired effect. Takon as a whole, probably the t .servants of no other Government in the world are so thoroughly capable as those of the Celestial kingdom; and if we imitate our English cousins by introducing this practical test of oilieial ability, wo shall simply bo copying tho Chinese example second-hand. We shall not attempt to follow Mr. JIaves at length. It may be said of bis remarks on a fruitful, if somewhat thread-bare, topic, that they contain ' things both now and good; but tho things that are good aro not new, and tho things that are new aro not particularly good." Tho fact is, tho peoplo are tired of hearing about tho principles of Civil-service reform, and want a little practical exemplification. They have had enough, more than enough, of talk, ami are anxious to see it supplemented, by appropriate and vigorous action. We appreciate the serious disadvantages under which tho Executive labors; the party pressure and personal feeling against which he has to contend, and the innumerable obstacles which the prevailing system throws in iiis way. I Jut Mr, llayes has not imiroveil even bis limited opportunities, lis professions of reform havo been profuse, beginning with his letter of acceptance, and repeated in his inaugural address aim each annual message; but he has fallen very far short of practicing what ho preached, and lias disappointed popular expectation as much in this respect as in any feature of his Administration. lie complains that tho largo number of applicants renders careful inquiry into character aud antecedents manifestly impossible, whilo the absence of coiu-i pctitive examinations is an additional embarrassment. But giving him tho full benefit of this plea, he yet stands convicted before tho country of grossest inconsistency. He has appointed men to responsible positions at home and abroad without the slightest regard to their fitness; men whom he knew, or might have known, were radically unlit, and whose only claims were based on partisanship of the meanest sort. Wo believe that no man who was an activo participant in the performances which thrust Mr. Hayes into the Presidential chair has been refused an office. We believe that no man, of high or low degree, who distinguished himself in tho Rottirning-Board and Electoral-Commission business, and was not already provided for, has been turned empty away. In one shapo or another, every instrument in the porpotration of that colossal fraud has been rewarded at tho expense of the public. To call this a mere accident will not answer. Mr. Hayes knew what he was doing, and why. He simply helped those wlto had helped him, caring nothing for their qualifications. It was a clear ease of pay for services rendered, not to the country or to the Government, but to himself; though country and Government have to foot tho bills. Moreover, the only fight tho Administration lias made on the reform issue, though victorious, was followed . by an unconditional surrender. Cornell was dismissed from a Federal oflico because openly and defiantly opposed to reform. Yet the Administration helped to elect this champion anti-reformer Governor of New York. Ho was not fit to bo Naval Ollicer, but preeminently fit to manage tho affairs of the first State in tho Union. Such exhibitions of personal favoritism and unscrupulous partisanship on the part of Mr. Hayes make his long sermon on Civil-service reform something worse than ridiculous; it is contemptible. He might havo done much to redeem our Civil-service from tho reproach under which it has so long rested. He has shown himself incapable of doing anything, and actually weakened tho reform movement by degrading it in popular estimation. The sermon will, therefore, only draw public attention to the shameloss shortcomings of tho preacher. Si. Louii llcwolknn.

Thero is on Long Island Sound an old oyster digger who has raked the bivalve for GO years. Ho estimates that m his time hu has caught billions of oysters and has oaten thousands of oysters in soups and Mews. The other night ho was taken to a church fair, and was given :t regular charity fair oyster stow. Ho exclaimed : I have eaten nothing but ovular nil my life, in one shapo or another, ami 1 like a change. This is something new."jvgw York Herald Tiik best time to gathcr apples is in tho dark of the moon when the farmer is in his littla bed.

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If tha Republican party shall determine at last to place Grant oh the track for a third term tha Democratic party is not likely to signify a preference for other stalwarts who have been named, or who may lie brought forward by Republican factions. Tho Democratic jmrty, looking to its ewn success aud the triumph of the principles and measures it has advocated and will continue to maintain, sues nothing in the caudidacv of General Graut to occasion doubt or dismay. On the contrary, it requires no large powers of presciouce to discover that Grant would be, all things eonsidorod, preferable to other stalwarts who are cultivating Presidential booms. This conclusion bears tho stamp of reasonableness, and the more the Grant booai is analyzed the more firmly will the public mind 1e impressed with tho fact. In the first place, those who may give the subject careful consideration will seek to know the real natives of those who are conspicuous in urging Grant as a third-term candidate. The solution of the problem is not difficult. It is worthy of observation that those most conspicuous in manufacturing Grant thunder never make any diroot nor indirect allusion to Grant's Presidential career not a syllable nor a sentence of eulogy. In all the Niagaras of eulogy with which the country has been "flooded since the General landed at San Francisco, thero has been a studious omission of Grant's career as President. Why? IJecause ho took tho most exalted oflico known to civilized nations and made it odious. So execrable were his Administrations that the best element of the Republican party, realizing the abominations he permitted and the infamous character of the men whom he patronized, abandoned tho party aud sought by every means at their command to correct tho deplorable evils he had brought upon tho country. It is a truth, known and read by all men, that Grant as President was not only a failure, but a calamity. Hence, no one of those who are now managing his boom refer to his Administrations as a reason why ho should have a third term. His Administrations are without one redeeming incident to obscure their record of nepotism, selfishness, venality, peculation, fraud, villainy, ignorance, duplicity and despotism. It is said that Grant was not responsible; that his agents, his chosen counselors thoso to whom ho gave his confidence, and to whom he confided great trusts deceived him. If this is admitted, it does not help the case. His selections of men were, with rare exceptions, the most depraved and vicious that could bo found; and when their incapacity and infamy wero made notorious, Grant became their refuge and their defense. We challenge the record: there it stands a record so vile that his friends dare not refer to it, lest from every pago there shall start forth facts so haggard and hideous as to demoralize the boom. These men whom Grant patronized and defended fanatics, thieves and plunderers; the Robesons, Belknaps, IJabcocks, et al., are, to a man, for Grant and a third term for Grant means a third term for them. Such things the Grant boomers desire to have kept in the background; and hence no reference is made to Grant's record while occupying the oflico of President for eight vears. If tho Republican party is ready for tho discussion, it will find the Democratic party ready to meet its champions more thau lialf way, and, as a consequence, the Democratic party does not care what magnitude tho Grant boom may reach. Another reason why Republican stalwarts want Grant is clearly expressed in tho statement that a ".strong man," a "great soldier," is wanted to light the South and tho Democratic party. It is a clear, unequivocal declaration that the immediate future, if they can regain full power in the tiovernment, is to inaugurate a fanatical and sectional warhence the country is continually reminded of all the fierce battles that were fought during tho war. Grass-grown and llowerdecked graves are opened and tho ghastly dead are made to pass in review. The old fires aro rekindled, tho old hates revived, old issues brought forward, the bloody shirt is waved; tho utterances of fools are magnified and distorted; the South is denounced and slandered, and all things that hellish malice can devise or invent is vomited upon the country for the purpose of creating sectional hostilities. This done, ' Grant is to mount tho licry billows of fanaticism to bo carried again to- tho White Houso. The stalwarts regard it as their last chance, and Grant as their last forlorn hope. But tho peoplo aro likely to comprehend tho terrible perils of such purposes. Rising above the din of such infernal demands there must be heard a voice demanding peace, fraternity, good will. Upon such issues the Democratic party is raulysfor the Grant boom, or any other Republican boom that may be started. It will go before the country the champion of tho Constitution, the rights of tho people, and the advocate of just lawsknowing no North, no South, no section; cultivating no sectional antagonisms; with a policy as broad as the continent; with principles, like truth, which, if crushed to earth, shall rise again. Tho Democratic party, regardless of Repulican nominations, will go lieforotho country in 1880, and it must not bo forgotten that when it again elects a President and n Vice-President tho choice of tho peoplo will bo inaugurated. ImliannjHtfia Sentinel. i a Pine Apple Sherbet: Juice of six lemons, one can of pine apples cut lino, sugar to taste, and after it begins to freeze add tho whites of six eggs, well imnucii with two tablespoons ot sugar.

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licaus must have them, as they aro out of meat. They have no other issue to stand upon. They have taken their position and staked their chances of success upon this bloody-shirt issue alone, and, unless they can replenish the dye-stun", their cause is hopeless. It must bo patent to any ordinary observer, if he is impartial, that here is a party necessity fraught with great danger to the country in general, and tho Southern section in particular. The expedient hero pointed at is so horrible that many will be extremely credulous, and so might wo were the danger hypothetical simply; but, alas! there have already been too many instances of this very thing when party urgency was much less in the Re publican rank that it is at present We do not mean simply stories of outrages accompanied with bullet-holos. through hats, a kind of side-show that the notorious Hester and a great many others have been very proficient in. We do not mean tho purely imaginative dime novel sketches of violence in the South, such as James Redpath used to write for the Now York 'IHmcs. These are more contemptible than dangerous. What wo dread as lovers of panco and order is that tho idea expressed a few years ago by a Republican committee in South Carolina that "a few dead niggers will help the cause," will find acceptance among the tools of the 1 party, who aro vilo enough for any-1 thing. We do not believe that wo exnggcrnto tlse picture. The South has ! never been so peaceable and prosper, i ous as It has since self-government was permitted in all the btates. Uut the sectional cry at the North among Radical politicians was never so bitter as now, and, to justify what has been said and will bo said, it will be necessary to send emissaries throughout all that section to foment race and class feeling and stir up strife and disorder. The South should understand this in advance, for tho work of vilification and social in cendiarism will bo practiced against them in earnest next year. Boston fort. Old Familv Minck-I'Ies. Three pounds of fresh roastbeef, chopped fine, and added to one pound of beef kidney suet, after it has been chopped anil strained; three pounds of Rhode Island greening apples, after they have been enoppeu; inrec pounua oi raisins, muscatels, two stoned and one left whole; one pound and a half of well cleaned and dried currants, a pound of mixed candied peel, ono-third lemon, one-third orange, one-third citron, one pound of light brown sugar, and a second put with a pint of golden sirup into a quart of sweet, fresh cider, with which it i . . . . . . .i . . . should bo boiled until it is reduced onothird. To the other Ingredients add the juice and grated rinds of two oranges anil two lemons, two leaspoomuis oi salt, two large nutmegs, one tablespoonful of ground cinnamon, and nan or more of ground cloves. When all these are put together, add tho boiled cider, and mix thoroughly. Make a paste by mixing half a pound of lard to half a teaspoonful of salt and a pound of Hour, with cold water. Roll out with butter, dredging with flour, until it has been rolled out three times. Cover with pastry quarter of an inch thick, and bake in a steady but not fierce oven, covering with paper, if the top becomes too brown. m -Ginger Pudding t Five eggs, two cups each sugar and butter, four cups flour, one cup each of molasses and sour milk, tcaspoonful of soda, ginger and allspice to taste, Sauce: Half pint of molasses, one pint of sugar, lump of butter, little water, ginger to taste, boil all well together.

IANA STATE HEWS.

faculty of Butler UnlrrUy has forthe attendance of young 1 tulle upfte mry societies. A rcnural mutiny w nt, tha members of Ute mekUwi Wthat they will shut thm uti umimm Uh iiRbl order ts rwclwded. Ia tab ion it might not bn Inappropriate to liat Butler UnlvrUy boast of 11 ng t literary institution in tho UVatto . doors to Btud.-nu of both szm oa an footing. ajf Ai. Kkvknub Coi.i.kctok P. P. Cci the Lafayette district, bat tendered Ignatlon. lightning-rod swindler have come ann over the State of Indiana. With sual false pretenses of " costing hut they obtained partnlseion to rod the Asylum. They perfectly jrjrdled the tfon with ten times as many rods as ary, at forty-wen and a half eenU per Their hill 6,O00. The State reto pay ana is fighting against paying re lightning rod. report of the Soldiers Orphans' Home tyluin for Feeble-minded Children was th the Governor on the 1st. It shows nates on October 31, of which only four ble-mlnded, the reception of that class only just commenced. Durlnic the notith, however, about fifteen of thof unatcH have been received. The report the expenditures of the fiscal year to cn 833,s,43, of which amount $6 has been expended on building aud 'einonts during the past soven months. w buildmjr, which will accommodate ates, will soon be completed. . Walkkk ha ferved notices upon the lor and State officers that he U not satwith thu award made bv the State xer In the matter of the $3O0,O ternloan bonds. These bond?, It will be bcred, were sold at a premium of two nt,, and Mr. Walker claims that he hid of two and one-fourth premium, as therefore entitled to the award. ate ofllcers In reply allege that 3Ir. '6 bid was not pent or received until iic date named in the advertlxcmcnt eiving bids, and therefore was not en - consideration. iIakt Ciikw, an Anderson dressmaker, ted suicide with poison on the 1st domestic trouble. TiF.VKs robbed the ticket office at Russiavllle the other night of a small amount of cash, and one hundred tickets reading "Russiaville to Forest." Hon. Samcei. E. Tekkixs, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Indiana, who has been suffering several weeks with an affection of the brain, was taken suddenly worse at a late hour on the night of the 4th, and at midnight his physicians thought he would not live till dayllcht. He wae first made Supreme Judge in 1S15, and has becu on the bench almost continuously ever since. He is in the sixtyninth year ot his age. The condition of the public debt of the State October 31, 1S73, was as follows: t'OKEIGS DEBT. Five per cent, certificate!, State stock.., . $H,1W W Two anil one-half per cent, certificates, State stock... 2,565 13 War loan boudts C per cent... 138,000 00 Temporary loan bond, , 5 pur ceut., due April 1, Wt SW,CO)0O TemiKtrary loan bond!', rcKlMcrid 0 twr cost., duo December 1. lbTS.. 300,003 00 Temporary hHti bonds, held by Purdue University, 6 per cent., duo April 1, last 300,000 00 Internal improvement bonds.... 27,(00 03 gl.90 5 12 DOMESTIC DEBT. School fund Imnd No. 1, Janimry 1. IW $708,021 S3 School fund bond No. 2, January 20. 1M7 2,fl5S,0i7 30 School fund bond No. 3, May 1, 1NJ8 03 Scuool fund bond No. 4, January!), 181 1"VW School fund bond No. 5, Mayu, 1&7J ut Sl,f0i,7SS123 Total debt Sl.,17S IM The following Is a summary of the report of the Auditor of State of the receipts and expenditures of the State during the fiscal year ending Oct. 31,1870: Net cash receipts during: year .....53,157,22157 m. r ir wr. m itiK year., ......... .. ,..-'. Loaves excess of receipts over ir disbursements...... f w,w.o Add balance cash In Treasury Oct. 31, 15578 . &1.3WU8 Makes cnh balance charyeablo ui HKrtlnstTrcsisuryOct. 8t, 17... f'S3,7:l. A suooTiso affray occurred at Markiu, Grant County, on the night of the 4th, between John Horn and William Stemler, in which the latter was fatally wounded. Damet Mitxuk has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for two years for attempting to wreck a Lake Shore train near La Porte in September last. The residence of Silas T. Bowcn, of Indianap,.lls, was entered by burglars on the night of the nth, and robbed of about 1,S(X) worth of Jewelry and other valuables. He was discovered a few minutes after be got into the houe, but escaped, though he dropped about $700 worth of stuff in his flight. Fban'K P. Thomas, 'a young married taaa of Winslow, In company with two companions, all drunk, started to drive home from Owcasvlllethe other night, and whipped the horse Into a fast gallop cm a rough road. Thomas was thrown out on his head and Instantly killed. At.vis Hotcenoeb, a well-known wagonmaker, of Goshen, has unaccountably disap peared, ltis thought that he lias coaiinnicu suicide. The State Teachers' Association will meet In Indianapolis on the SDth Inst. Governor Hendricks will deliver the opening address. John Howk, a wealthy fanner living three miles north of Hiigcrstown, Wayne County, was poisoned on the 0th by the Inhalation of vapor from red ok timber with which he was working. After suffering the agols ot death for a long time he died next morning. The following are the current prtees for leading staples In Indianapolis: Yht, No. 2 ItaC tl.3?i&l.); Com, 3?K3Sfci Oats, 33 3Kc; Lanl, 737tfc; Hogs, t.4.. The Cincinnati quotations aret Wheat, IM 441.30: Corn, 404e; Oats, 84ic; Uje, &557c; Barley No. 3, WMItte; Pork, 11.50 BUMS Lard, 77Kc; lit,

Th KftptiMlfMi Kiliwmj. The RipubHoan party ha ajMfeMt prid in m lwulendiip. and a great many people, not especially marked hi party predilection, have been (lpoe4 to eonoede the advantage. The alleged laok of bead to DarooorHtic movements' has been dwolt'upon with oraoular eloquence, while the Grants, Sherniaiw, Blainee, Conklings, Morton, Chandlers, etc., liavw been pointed to a the vast resources of the He publican party, to be drawn upon as political exigencies might require. We have been told how Ewing was out of favor with the hardmoney element of his party; how Tlmrnian had to unbend from time-honored convictions to get into line with the a ew-f angled notions of platform-carpenters; how Tihlen's letter of acceptance soured on the stonmelis of the W ostern Democrats, who had moderH ideas concerning money; how Hondricks has been annoyed by the conilictin doctrines in this party; how Bayard lias been at swords'-points with nearly all Woatern leaders of the Democracy; and how, generally speaking, tho Democratic partj' has not had, for several years, any distinguished leader who could draw to his support all the eloi sents and convert discord into harmony. Then we have been invited to contemplate the other picture; to look upon the sweet unison of the Republican chiefs on all leading questions; to note the unanimity on the subject of resumption, and upon the ghastly recollections of tho war as a means of cultivating popular passion, and uniting the North against the Solid South. The tune has come when too many Republican leaders are aiming at the same emoluments.. There are now three especially conspicuous Republicans creitited with Presidential aspirations, and they aro rapidly drifting into the crash of lbSft. In fact, we have the collision now. There is General Grant, who, to say the least, is in the hands of his friends, and who will not peremptorily decline, and whose position arouses to tho highest pitch tho jealousy ol Blaine and Sherman, each of whom has a deadly jealousy of tho other. There is a triangular tight which has assumed the vicious character of a throat-cutting arrangement. Each man has a razor in each hand. Blaine is stretching forth an arm for the bowels of Grant, whilo the other is toying with

blionnan s jugular, bherman is also two-edged, and at times four blades stem to he pointed at one throat. It is a rough fight 44 all round," and the tert: Sr..-. usT.. .1.. . 1 1 nuu cuuinek sujcsis liiu most logical theories concerning tho current political events and politicians. lllnine, since his appearance in the Sennlo. has made no exception of SherraiMi in his efforts to embarrass the Administration, and in the recent cam paigns has used his brilliant impudence to lire that particular portion of the Northern heart which is supposed to be peculiarly tho political property ol Sherman. Sherman threw the weight of the Administration into the Maine contest, but Blaine "hogged11 all the honors; he assumed to have personally solidiiied his base of Presidential operations. Now comes u cry of trickery m Maine, by which tho fruits of the ollorri.il lie nultHrnn victorv in that 1 State are io be clubbed down before they are ripe; and by which the Greenbackers and Democrats are to substantially assume the position of having carried the election. If there has been any trickery in Maine, it requires no abstruse, reasoning to associatu Sherman with it. Sherman is an acute politician. He is known as one of the best managers of personal interests ia the whole country, lie is ambitions, and knows that his personal advancement depends n&lesson crushing opposition in his own party than upon fighting the Democrats. Who of all men has greater interest than John Sherman in depriving Blaine of the prestige of a Republican victory in Maine? who knows better than S'herman that a ma might as well drop himself into the middle of the Atlantic without a lifepreserver as to go into a National Convention without Iiis own State behind him? The aggressive Secretary of the Treasury has more interest in beating Blaine in Maine than has any Democrat in the United States; and if there- is to be an investigation of this Maine- business, Sherman should be called to the stand to add interest to the matter. Grant has not escaped. The other candidates for the Republican nomination for President have not been conspicuous for cordiality in conuectioa with the welcome homo of the dlstiaeuished General. They look upon honors to Grant with stolid envy, and eaa scarcely conceal delight when slurs are aimed at tho adversary who advances on horseback. They aro opposed to each other, but united araiast Grant. The silence of Grant, which is deenor even than tho absence of words, wakes it hard to tell how ho feels toward Sherman and Blaine, bfc ho k probably not an angel. ( How long, by tho way, wrfl Grant ? ITnw Inn"- ean life temper remain unruffled under insinuations such as that offered y an obscure San Francisco paper, doubtless ia the employ of some one who wants to deliver a fatal stab earlv ia the engagement? There is venom ia this. Who is the author of the Sn Francisco article making; sport of Grant? Who marks these articles and sends them to papers of larger circulation than is enjoyed by the concern waich assumes tho paternity of tho story? Ho, they, she or it should come to tho front, and possibly enjoy the distinction of rousing Grant to a visible fighting pitch. And the men -who are running against Grant ought to stop this kind of literature, or else they may help to aoiute him,-" CinefaMii Enquirer ,: