Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 28, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 October 1880 — Page 3

The Ligonier 3 { ¢ Ligonier Banner. . J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prop’r. i 5 i ————————— & TIGONIER, :. . .: ' JNDIANA, : "——'_—""-—"—"“" —_‘_—l‘”‘—"“—_"'———' © OUR COUNTRY’S PERIL. . ‘Extracts from Gov. Seymour’s Last Speech i in New York. ; l Governor Horatio Sevmour recently made | another of his masterly political addresses in | Chickering Hall, New York, ' to an immense audience, composed of the leading citizens | of all .parties. .The following are extracts Arom his address: - “With all Governments, under all conditions, there is peril, on'the one hand, of re- | sistance to rightful authority; gn the.other, | that the Govermment thirough corruption may | destroy itself. On-one mu:;fi peri_l,oi‘ force; on | the other hand that of fraud and injustice. | When our fathers framed the Constitution | they kept in view both these dangers. With ! g)'(fat care and wisdom they defined the jurisdiction of Geneéral and State Governments. | There iz no intedigent man who will not ad- ‘ mit that destruction of the rights of States would be followed by corruptions that in the ! end would shatter our Government to frag | ments. Our Government presents at all elec- | tions & . : L : THESE TWO DANGERS more cleqriy than any other.country. So far | the pending election has been free from po- ' Jitical excitement which sometimes marks our political contests: I come before you tonight an old man who his no personal interest in these affairs, but one who loves his contry. I =tand before you in the full belief that your interests ure endangered to.a degree you have not thought of. A few days ago the senior Senator of this State addressed a meeting of Republicans. He dwelt on the preponderance of Southern Re{)rt-scntnti\'i-s | in Washington. - But why does he stop here? } ‘Why does he nottell you that he and his party make all this danger by centralizing power at Washington? IHe contines himself to threatened evils from the South. He does not state that the evils grow out of the construction Rut upon the Constitution by those who have ad control of the General Government for. many vears. Republicans have perverted the action of the Senate, and we demand it shail not be perverted and made a curse. Extension of the Senate’s power is not for the people’s good, but that these men may subserve fheir own ends. 1t is but a movement on the e’;u't of these men to move Wall Street in "ashington. . . GARFIELD CLAMORS FOR MORE POWER, - | but when you touch down into their private affairs tlw_v resent it most quickly, as is right. Who will give up the power these. ien ask for? They can not take except that which some one loses. You will give up what they gah}. To whom will you gveup? To these xmjx who clamor for more-power. What will you give up? It will not come from the impoverished South., Though they talk about the South, they mean you. Did you ever go -out on & moonlight night and have an excited man‘come upon you and point to the moon, and ask if there is not change, revolution, going on there? and your imagination is a little éxcited and you look at the man in the moon and then at yoar companion. But he is . gone, and jour pocket-is picked. Now, whose po¢kets are to be picked? They point to the South to divert your attention in order to rob you.. Thesé men ask power, not for their constituents, but for themselves,” : Mr. Seymour then treated of ~ THE FINANCIAL QUESTION, and denied. the claim of the Republican speakers that their party had saved the country from the disgraceé of rc¢pudiation. ‘“ We | charge,” said he, “ that the Republican Administrations from the close, of the war in 1867 to 1877 not only practiced repudiation, but by their conduct of public affdirs instigated the controversies with regurd to the currency and public'debt, Every business man knows that there i no form of repudiation so common and dapgerous as that where the debtor, loudly protessing his honor, at the same time: wastes or isapplies his resources. This is‘as true of States as it is of personxs, If, when ‘the war was csed, the Govermment had cut ‘ down its expenses as it should have done, it would at once have made such payvimentsupon the public debt as would have given .it high credit in the world, would have added to the walue of its currency, and by the use of its re‘gources in payment of. its debt would have checked the wild speculation that broughtupon all classes so much ruin and distress in 1873. During the period of which I speak the expenditures amounted to more than §1,645,000,000, making. a yeangy average of more than $148,500,000. In'this there are not included the cost of pensions, of interest, or the payments on the public debt, only the ordinary items of the War, the Navy, and the indian Departments, and the miscellaneous costs. Before the war the highest expenses of the Government were less than one-half this sum. If from 1867 to 1877 inclusive, the Government had spent one-third more than it did annually from 1856 to 1861, ‘it could have applied $500,000,000 moyre than it has.done toward tl&g payment of its obligations. We have spefit more than one-third in eleven years of peace of the -sum expended in seventy-five years, which included the events of three wars. This period of morethan three-quartersofacentury covered the war with the South, our invasion of Mexico, and the last war with Great Britain, when we gained so many triumphs upon the ocean. If the taxes upon the people had been honestly applied there would have been no ‘greenback’ agitation, for the currency would have been as good !as gold. The public believed the charge made by members of this administration against the Républican party. In the words of Mr. Schurz, ‘the party, in; ninet}'-ninv out of .-one hundred cases, had shielded fraud and corruption.” The waste and corruption growing out of the expenditures of Government, the widespread demoralization in official c¢ircles, the sums. of money made by those who gained grants from Congress, had muchto do with exciting controversies about our finances and our cur-, rency. When the erash came in 1873, this aspect, these speculations and corruptions, lecll to irritation that, for a time, unsettled the publicmind. If the Republican party claim merit from the resultsof prospérous seasons, of failing harvests in other countries, of the | skill and labor of our people, over which they have no control, they certainly should be beld responsible for the evils which havefirowh out of their management where they ave had exclusive control.” e THE GREAT PRESIDENTXAL FRAUD, : “A majority of the Ameérican people feel they were wronged by the decision which put Mr. Hayes in the Presidential chair. It was made by a partisan vote against the recorded wishes of the people. Not only in the final act, but the early steps leading to the result were marked by facts which will stand out on the pages of history as acts of usurpation springing from numberless schemes at the Capitul of the Union, growing out of the system of centralization. If in 8 mere contegt between private citizens the winning party should shower honors and emoluments upon the court, the jurors and witnesses who gave him a verdict, the moral sense of the commu~nity would be shocked, and the public voice would ring out with cries of fraud. Yetin this matter the members of Returning Boards, the ready witnesses, the skillful party agents were rewarded with the highest oflices of State, represent our country av other Governmentsor draw their salaries from the public treasury with a clear sense of the fact that they made the President who made them offi.cials as their due reward for services ren‘dered. While there is a difference of opinion with regard to the facts and events of the clectoral count .of 1876, all must see that as power and patronage concentrate and grow ®t Washington, intense and dangerous ex- - ritement will attend. Presidential elections. v MEN WHO MEAN TO MAKE MILLIONS by the passage of laws will spend large sums to clect their chosen law-makers. Our people must not suffer our Capital to be made a den of (~onspil‘ators by filling it with the glittering -prize of wealth and ambition for those who. will usurp power or sell themselves for gold. ‘lt is said by the Republican speakers that they want no change. Neither do we want a «change in our system of Government, under which we have grown so great and prosper;ous. The industry of our people and the Jbountiesof Providence hgyvelifted us above the distress which was bro&;ht upon all classes ‘by wild speculations. These grew out of the ‘Republican policy, which used the money drawn by taxation from the F(?Ople in wasteful expenditures, and led all classes to look. for wealth, not from industry and economy, but from gpurious and demoralizing schemes, We protest against changes which will enable officials at Washington to meddle or interfere with the prosperous pursuits of our people. "We are protesting against untried theories which seek. to ehange jurisdiction from the people to officials at Washington. We are combating the theories of Mr. Garfield, that Government is changing and ought to change.| "The Democratic party protests against this action, which unsettles the policy of our Gov--ernment, which &reatens ‘disturbance .to all its business. Pursults by gttin control into the hands of those who know fiass than our <itizens about their own affairs. We rebuke :ge theories of Mr. Garfleld with words from % : ‘ ¢

* FAREWELL ADDRESS OF WASHINGTON: “Aet there be no change by usurpation, for

though this in one jnstance may be the instrument of zood, it is the customary weapon by which [Lfiee governments are destroved.’ Business méh have a rank in our country unknown elsewhere. The merchant, mecf)mni(and farmer hold social and political positions which grow out of the distribution of power by pur system of Government. Their duties as citizens in town, county and State affairs train them t 6 such a knowledge of the struc‘ture of society, the wants and the rights of all classes, /the necessity for laws, the importance of intelligence and virtue,; the need of enterprise, that they become far more intelligent with regard to jurisprudence, political economy, and the ri;ghtsand duty of citizenship than the privileged .classes of Europe. In our country the ordinary pursuits are linked with political transactions, with growing greatness, so closely that they cannot be severed nor viewed in any light which does not display their ultimate and intermingled relationship. The.successful business men of our country are ungrateful to our system of (Government or ignorant of their own rights and duties, and show a want of self-respect when they yield up their rizhtful powers or show an indifference to their duties. Certainly they would not, in their private affairs, allow changes in their rights and powers with: out a careful scrutiny. In consequence they would not be led by their opinions into establishing rules for harming others until they have carefully considered their effects upon themselves. \ : ; THE CANDIDATES CONTRASTED. On the 4th day of March next the two'eandidates tor the Presidency will each solemly swear that they will, to the best of their abilities, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. This solemn ceremony will be observed by Mr. Gartield within the walls of the Capitol, when he takes his seat as Senator from Ohio. In a more im-{m-ssi\'o way, in the purer air of heaven and yéfore an assembled multitude of American citizens, Gen. Hancock will, in the like way, swear faithfully to execute the oftice of President of the United States. Each of these oflicials will in the same terms assume the obligation to preserve thd' Constitution, and yet how broad will be the difference in the minds of these men with regard to the significance of their oaths! The one, educated in the atmosphere of the Capital, where power and prerogatives are dis*)luyod in' their most tempting aspects; the other taught by his profession to obey rightful authority; the one who has lived many years under the influence of those who strive to lead the lawmaking power, to tax the people for selfish purposes; the other, a soldier who has periledl his life for the interests of that peobple, and who, more than any other publi¢ man, in the course of his extended commands, has learned the wants and conditions of the North and of the South, of the Eastern States and of the vast region bordered by the Pacific Ocean. The views of the Constitution of these two men differ as widely as their experiences.” Mr. ‘Garfield has gained his ideas of public policy under the pressure of those who hang about the lobbies of the Capitol. Gen. Hancock has studied the interests of the older and prosperous sections of the U'nion as well as of the newer States and Territories. No other public man can be named who has had occasion to learn so much of tliese as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency.” >

The ¢¢Providential”’ ‘Argumént_.

The Republican leaders are great on Providential decrees. Last winter loud swelling words were uttered over the prevention of the ¢Maine steal,” and special thanks offered for the specialintervention of Providence in raising up such leaders as prevented its consummation.- How about Providence down there now? What has become of the power and prestige of the Moses and Joshua who figured so conspicuously then? It was an arrangement under Providence that enabled the Republicans to carry that State four years ago by 15,000. Have the superintending eye’ and hand of Providence been withdrawn, or changed purpose, or what? Mr. Evarts has also gone into this same kind of talk. How absurd, besides profane. . ¢John Sherman, favored by Divine Providence, carried us through financial depression to the broad sea of prosperity.”” Where was Providence when he, with others, insti. cated the demonetization of the curreney in 1862, and set the first example of National repudiation? Where, when this same Sherman perambulated Maine a year ago boastin% of having rocked the Greenback baby in its infancy, for the purpose of winning Greenback votes? - Where, when Garfield went to Chicago as his friend and advocate, but returning with laurels on his own brow, atter an internal struizgle forced from his lips, *My God! will Sherman think I have betrayed him?’’ If the financial Secretary is the special favorite of ¢ Divine Providenae,” it ‘also seems quite singular that he did not commit himself one way or the other when specially asked to do 8o on the question about canceling greenbacks after being withdrawn from circulation. :

Such free use of Providence by all these leading politicians will not stand examination for an instant. There is a God in Israel, but they are notall Israelites who are of Israel. Bad as are the teachings of Bob Ingersoll, there are worse teachers than he. Providence is on the side of all. It is the wickedness and perverseness of his creatures that makes all the trouble, but they are not all found on one side in politics or other relations by a great deal.—Boston Statesman. | ' ,

——Mr. A. G. Chase, an Ice merchant, was seen chalking 329 on a jeweler’s shutter in Gardiner, Me.. He was arrested by a Republican police officer and taken before a Republican magistrate. * An imposing array of lawyers made speeches upon each side, and the Gardiner folk seem to have got a good deal of amusement and no little excitement out of the case. At last accounts the . magistrate had the matter ¢ under advisement,’’ but Chase, with his chalk, had accomplished ~ his purpose, and Credit Mobilier has once more become an ‘“issue’ ‘in Maine. If a verdict is rendered against Chase he will appeal to a higher court, and gentlemen representing six million dollars have already offereg theinselves as bondsmen.

——The ¢ rebel claims ”’ bugaboo has been pretty generally abandoned by the stalwart orators and organs, this course having been forced by the protests of the more decent Republicans and such remarks from Southern sources as the following from the Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat : ' . ¢ No decent Southern man has ever thought. of asking the Government to pay him war damages. The fellows who make such requests were traitors to one or the other section during the war, and have been vampires on the country since then.”! :

——llf Longstreet is a patriot because he joined the Republican party; if Mosby’s sins are whiter than wool because he has been baptized in the faith, Jeff. Davis himself has only to unite himself with that party in order to obtain Republican testimony that his conduct during that famous four years of ¢ unpleasantness '’ was simply an eccentricity of a great but otherwise trustworthy citimenHachomge. . . .

——ln 1873, 829 Republican nevggapers denounced the Credit Mobkilier swindle. ‘ : .

A Characteristic Republican Fraud Ex- : posed. |

The National Decimocratic Committee issued the following on the night of the 21st: Pl

- To tHE PußLic: When this campaign opened the National Democratic Committee contracted with the American Union and Western Union Telegraph Companies for special rates for their business, and arranged with said companies that all telegrams seut or received by the committee should be returned at the end of each week to the cashier of the committee as vouchers for bills rendered. Telegrams so sent or -secured by our committee bave been returned under this arrangement weekly, and paid for, according to contract. On Wednesday morning, October 20, the Western Union Telegraph Company. returned to the Committee vouchers as usual for the second week in October. . ,

Upon their being examined by our cashier to verify the. amount the following telegrams were found in the package so sent us as vouchers, evidently being a mistake on the part of the official having the same in charge at the oftice of- the Western Union ‘lelegraph Company The telegrams are written upon Western Union blanks, and areas: follows: = - - : : . - [Rush.] LA Oct. 12,1880.—T0 Hon. CHARLES J. NOYES, care H. Jenkins, Jr., Jucksonville, Fla.: I telegraphed yesterday. I will provide as requested two hundred each for Collender and yourseif as compensation. , : i MARSHALL JEWELL. { 17. Paid.: S ' . i [Rush.] | ; . Oct. 12, 1880. To F. W. WICKER, Colleetor, Key West, Fla.: *“City of Dalius’’ took 130, ¢ City of Texas’ 100, ** Colorado” i 0) for ‘Key West. Men on deck instructed tosay nothing about it. e MARSHALL JEWELL. 21. Paid. : : The numerals ¢150,” 100" and ¢100” in this last' telegram mean so many men. - ‘ These telegrams, or rather. the one addressed: to F. W. Wicker, United States Collector at the port of Key West, Fla., tells its own story. The sun had not gone down in the State of Indiana where one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on a free Government and a free ballot were about to be consummated, when the Chairman of the National Republican Committee and an official of the United States Government were preparing to repeat, in the State’ of Florida, the infamy then about to be consummated in the State of Indiana. : : - The Committee were advised, previous to the receipt of these telegrams, that the State of Florida was about to be overrun by the repeaters. of our large cities. The telegrams of Mr. Jewell 6nly confirm what the Committee well knew to be the fact. . The above telegrams: are in. the possession of the Committee. They are written in copying ink, have been copied in a letter-press book, and bear the telegraph receiver’'s checks and marks, and .this Committee defies any one to assert that they are not genuine. The telegrams are being lithographed, -and will be given to the public in a day or two. - WM. H. BArNUM, Chairman National Democratic Committee, NEw YORK, Oct. 21, 1580. -

The Wisconsin = Demecratic Address.

Chairman Parkinson, of the Democratic .State Central Committee, ' has issued the subjoined address:

TO THE DEMOCRATIC AND INDEPENDENT VOT ERS OF WISCONSIN: Two full weeks only. remain for the active labors of the Presidential canvass. ‘The results of the recent local elec tions in Indiana and Ohio emphasize the importance of continued work and unceasing vigilance on our part. The progress of the campaign from this time will not be hampered by local issues and personal dissensions. All these are now eliminated from the canvass, and the great Presidential contest is to be decided in November upon National issues and the merits of the respective candidates. From this'hour our enemies should be kept fighting all along the hine. In this way their -eftorts to concentrate the whole power of the Federal Administration upon a few pivotal States will be thwarted; the systematic colonization of voters, so successfully practiced at the recent elections, will be defeated. -

By our bold and vigorous assaults in every State the hireling army of Federal officials will be compelled to deploy itself throughoit the whole country. New York, New Jersey and Connecticut will cast their Electora] votes for Hancock and English. . The Garfield Electors in Maine will be buried under a majority of five thousanad. ; ; 1

~ This is more than enough to make our vie tory secure, but in Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Hampshire, California and Nevada our friends are contident. In Indiana, too, the Democratic legions are reforming for a more vigorous campuign than that just closed. 'They have given their pledge to redeem the State in November. . | 5

Wisconsin should take her rightfil place in the column of Democratic States.” She will if each loyal Democrat does his full duty from this time on till the close of the polls on election night. Remember that our great stand-ard-bearer never sheathed his sword until the enenmy were routed. Let us close up the lines and move onward for Hancock and victory. By order of the Democratic State Central Committee. A. C. PARKINSON, Chairman. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Oct. 18, 1880. :

Garfield’s Chinese Letter,

The National Democratic Committee have published the following letter alleged to have been addressed by General Garfield, the Republican candidate for President, to H. L. Morey, of Lynn, Mass:

[Personal and Confidential.] ’ DEAR 81R: Yoursin relation to the Chinese problem came duly to hand I take it that the queption ot employes is only a question of private and corporaté economy, and individuals orCompanies have the right to buy labor where they can get it cheapest. : We have a tréaty with the Chinese Government which should be religiously kept until its provisions are abrogated by the action of the General Government; and [ am not prepared to say thag it should be abrogated until our great manufacturing interests are conserved in the matter of labor. Very truly, ! : : JAS. A. GARFIELD. ~ To H. L. Morey, Employers’ Union, Lynn, Mass. ! e @M

——ln an interview published in the Evening Telegram of New York, General Hancock is reported as saying emphatically that there is no reason at all for believing Indiana would go Republican in November. ¢ There were local issues at stake in Indiana which ‘will have no effect in a National contest.” In answer to another question the General’said with some warmth, ‘1 have never thought of being despondent.” General V\? T. Mitchell, one of General Hancock’s staff officers, declined, being an army officer, to give any views for publication, but said: “Iy never saw éeneral Hancock in better spirits than he is to-day. He is not in the cast discouraged.”” General Hancock 'xpressed himself as not disappointed at the result in Ohio; but he did not think the Republicans had a right to claim such majorities as had been telegraphed over the country by the Associated Press. .

‘WOoMEN have a better voice for the telephone than men.

The New Grant Campaign.

It is not now under the bloody shirt of philanthropy, it is under the black flag of empire that the Republicans are going into this election. %he defeat of laine has discredited the bloody shirt, and Senator Conkling has raised the new standard of his party. Inthedark days of the civil war Lord John Russell provoked much angry comment on this side of the water by declaring that, in his opinion. the North was fighting not for Union but for empire. Honest men at the North resented this saying, for they knew that, without distinction of p}?rty,_ they were giving themselves and “heir treasure to war, not to found a new government here on force and wealth, but to maintain the Government of our fathers upon its ancient basis "of justice and of equal rights, an indissoluble Union of indéstructible States. What the North resented as a slander from the lips of a British statesman, Senator Conkling now proelaimsas the true policy of the great party which has been coerced into accepting him as its leaaer. He speaks of the South as Englishmen of theé sehool of Mr. Froude speak of Ireland. He almost reproduces, indeed, the very language in which Mr. Froude laments “the fatal contiguity’’ of Ireland to England, and intimates, if he does not plainly say, that the United States would be more prosperous and happier if the Gulf of Mexico washed the shores of Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana and Illineis. He does not trouble himself about the negroes. The Republican affectation of a particular anxiety as to the *‘wards of the Nation”’ belongs to the policy of the bloody shirt, and, aswe have said, Senator Conkling plainly sees. that the bloody shirt has served out its’ time and gone to rags. = He probably would not object to seeing the negroeés of the South drowned out with all the rest of the South. He is a practical, not a sentimental ‘‘statesman.” His aim is to make the massesof the Northern Republicans drunk with the lust of unbridled political domination; to beget in them toward the South. a feeling as nearly as possible analogous with the feeling of the English ruling classes toward Ireland. \%’ere it possible for the Republican party, animated by such a spirit as this, tosecure the Presidency in 1880, what would be the outcome of its success? Would it be the perpetuation and development of the pacific Democratic policy to which President Hayes gave in his adhesion nearly four years ago, and thanks to which the countrv is now enjoying all the blessings of public harmony and of a general prosperity? Has not Senator Conkling incessantly denounced President Hayes and his Administration as ‘‘sunk in infamy?'’ Did he not turn aside in his speech last week to sneer at President Hayes, and to warn General Garfield that any attempt on his part to imitate that mean pretender to superior political sanctity and to evade the will ofthe friends of Grant would be promptly and mercilessly chastised? : Were the Republican party, dominated as it now is. by Senator Conkling and the friends of Grant, to elect General Garfield, the power of the Executive would be wielded not by him at all but by them. He has already humbled himself before them and bound himself to submit the Executive patrona%e to their control. Théir policy would be the policy of the Administration, and it would be steadily directed to the single end of the re-election in 1884 of Grant, in:whom the idea of ‘a centralized Empire, as opposed tothe idea of aFederal Union, is incarnated. While it was still thought possible that the Democrats could be lured into making a weak and unpopular nomination, and that the Republicans could be made to nominate Grant, the friends of Grant took quite another tone towards the South from that in which Senator Conkling now proclaims his new Civil War. General Grant then went about the land telling the truth and declaring that the Southern people regard the stars and stripes ‘“as guaranteeing to them all the rights and privileges of a free people, without regard to race, color or previous condition of servitude.” General Grant then warned the people of the North against sectionalism, and told them that they ‘‘have no reason to ' doubt that those who _ wore the gray will fulfil - all they have promised in loyalty to the flag and the Nation.” Then the' hope of Grant and of his ‘friends was to secure the votes of the South in the Electoral College as against some weak and unpopular Democratic candidate. Now the circumstances have changed, and the programme changes with them. The Democrats have a strong and popular candidate. The Republicans have a weake and unpopular candidate. This Republican candidate has surrendered absolutely to Grant and his friends.” Should he by any chance be elected they will have the field open before them. In the virtually certain alternative of his defeat they alone at least will survive to be the true. Republican: party. Around them will gather all the sectional opposition .to the National Administration of President Hancock, and all the centralizing influences in the land —all seething and working together for the renomination of Grant in 1884. It will be safest and best to deal with them now. The election of General Garfield ‘'will mean an immediate restoration of the Grant rule at Washington, with an inevitable renomination of Grant in 1884. The election of General Hancock -will mean the final re-establishment of the Union, and that once more assured, the machinists of empire will toil and plot in vain!—N. Y. World. |

—— What a pitiful hypoecritical fraud is this man Weaver. He travels around the country pretending to uphold the principles of the Greenback party. He mounts the stump to expatiate on ‘¢ its mission.”” He writes and telegraphs from all points in its defense. He is continually braying aloud concerning the nature and extent of his personal sacrifices to ¢ the cause,” his self-abnegation, his noble generosity. While, in truth, he isa hired man; hired and paid by the Republican National Committee to work against the Democratic partyin the doubtful States of the West.—- Washington Post.

——lndiana elected Hendricks Governor in October, 1872, and gave its Electoral vote to Grant the next month. This year, having elected Porter in October, the proper thing is to give the Klectoral vote tol;'lancock in November.

Ancient Warriors Uncovered.

The excavations undertaken by the Greek scientist Stamartakis upon :the battle-field of Cheronea have E;dvto' a remarkable archmological discovery. According to the writings of Pausanias and Plutarch, in the year 338 B. C., 30,000 Macedonians, under the command of Philip and his son Alexander, then but eighteeh years of age, annihilated the united forces of the Athenians and Thebans at Cheronea, which is situated on the plain extending from the foot of Mount Parnassus. (Lhe encounter was. so deadly and the slaughter so enormous that the river which traverses the plain, the bed of which river is now dry, received therefrom the name of Hamon, signifying the blood river. The ‘ holy band of the Thebans, consisting of 300 heroic youn?men, which only took part at the conclusion of the battle, was -entirely destroyed, the bodies being interred together on the battle-field. The troop of 300 glorious dead have now, after the lapse of two-and-twenty centuries, been discovered and brought to. light by the exertions of M. Stamartakis, and, remarkable "to add, exactly in the form in which they were buried. Five minutes’ walk from the village of Cheronea, which is now. named Capraona, are scattered the limbsof a colossal monumental lion, destroyed by the stupidity and avariciousness of the inhabitants, who believed that beneath its base hidden treasures would be discovered. Thus this gigantic block of marble, erected to be an everlasting testimony of the glorious deeds of the mighty dead, had been undermined and blown up. It is on this spot that for some months passed excavations have béen carried on, the first discovery being that of a wall, which, upon being laid bare, was found to be twentyfive meters long,. tifteen meters wide and over two meters high, resting upon a foundation one and a half meters in depth. In the parallelogram fornved by this wall the excavators found at a ~dep-h of four meters the remains of 185 Thebans resting upon the clay soil, in parallel rows of forty men, side by side exactly in the position in which they ‘had expired. Several rows of these glorious combatants have already been uncovered, the heads of the lower rows resting on the feet of the ones above. All the corpses bear the traces of the severe wounds from which they died. The two thichs of one man have been pierced by the point of a lance; the jawbone of another has been smashéd; the skull of a third terribly mutilated; while a fourth, of whom the head is wonderfully preserved, has his- mouth opened, seemingly in the act of breathing, and this latter it is intended to remove to the Museum of Antiquities at Athens. It is especially remarkable that the whole of the remains of these heroes of the town of a hundred gates still retain their teeth complete. %‘Io weapons were found, as these were usually taken from the vanquished, but a number of bone buttons; pierced in the middle, were discovered and -two handled earthenware pots. The excavations will be continued in order to discover the remaining 100 companions of the ‘Theban phalanx and the two memorial stones on the right and left of the lion of Cheronea, which was erected to presérve to future generations the names of the noble 300. M. Stamartakis ‘is preparing a detailed report of this interesting historical discovery and a series of drawings, which will be added to the report, will give the position of each combatant. Six of them will be preserved in the Athens Museum and the remainder will be restored to their twenty-two century old funeral restingplace within the Halls of Time.—London Times. s ; e

A Drunken Man’s Perilous‘Drive.

The freaks of drunken men take turns that surprise everybody, themselves included. The newspapers chronicle many of these insane freaks, but none more sensational than the performance of#James Streden, an employe of the Bay View Rolling Mills, last evening.James had been up at West Bend attending a gathering of friends, and in driving his one-horse buggy through this city toward Bay View last evening, he switched off from Kinnickinnick Avenue, in the Twelfth Ward, and took the St. Paul Railway track to cross the Kinnickinnick River on the railroad. bridge. The bridge has for a bottom only ties placed about twenty-twoinches apart, and the task of walking across on a dark night like that of yesterday is- quite a ticklish one even for a sober man. For a horse, and especially for a horse controlled by a drunken driver, the task is ticklish not only, but well nigh impossible. Streden, however, was not sober enough te take in a reater fact than that a bridge lay be%ore him and must be chssed-: Therefore, when his horse hesitated. for a moment, the brute biped, who had the advantage of the brute quadruped, applied the whip, and the noble animal commenced his perilous trip across the bridge ties. Cautiously and very slowly the horse felt its way step by step till he had nearly completed one-half the distance across, when the drunken man in the buggy became impatient and struck the animal with his whip. A false step, a stagger and a final plunge told the story of the horse’s drop fifteen feet into the water below. The wrench and snapping-of the harness and thills threw Streden out, and he, happily, followed the horse into the chill waters of the muddy river. . Officer Weisner and a Mr. Davidson heard the double splash and concluding that an accident had occurred, the men ran to the river in time to see the horse swim out and clamber up an incline to the dock, while Streden, now nearly sober, was making efforts te keep his head above water. To draw the man to the shore was but the work of a moment, when it was found that he had suffered some scratches and. bruises; but with the inexplicable luck of drunken men, he had no bones broken and had suffered no internal injury. Streden was taken to Buerosses’ saloon, on Kinnickinnick Avenue, where his cuts and bruises were plastered up. The buggy, which remained lodged between ties on the bridge, was the most. used up member of the trio and was removed before the next train was due. Altogether, the experience was a very anusual one, and the officer who was near.at the time states that, had the horse been given time in going across, the journey wouldhave been completed without accident. The termination of

Streden's spree was very fortunate in that it was not.fatal to the noble animal he drove, and will, perhaps, -be considered tolerably fortunate also in that it did- net - prove fatal to Streden.—Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, An Enraged Elephant Kills Its Keeper. . Information received here from Charlotte, N. C., says a Richmond (Va.) special to the New York Herald, states that upon thearrival of John Robinson’s circus there yesterday a scene of great excitement ensued ‘consequent on the bad temper and -escape .of Chief, the largest and most powerful of the elephants. The car upon which the' animal was brought was standing near a crossing onTrade Street.. Quite a crowd had gathered to witness the process of unloading the animals. Chief had been taken off the car. Nothing remarkable occurred till the keeper of the elephants, ‘John King, was heard to ery out: *¢ Look out, there! ' If that elephant hits any of you; I will not be responsible.”” Almost immediately after giving this warning, ‘King, who was a powerfully built man, stepped round to Chief's head and was‘in the:act of turning him round, when ‘the people heard him call the animal by name- in what they regarded as a frightened tone. In a moment more the monster, who was ‘enraged, was seen by the crowd to turn upon the-unfortunate keeper and crush him against the car. King sank to the ground without a groan, and the attendants who were with him fled in terror and dismay., The growd scattered up Trade Street, and the wildest confusion followed. The men were afraid to appoach the infuriated animal and King was allowed to rémain. for several minutes on the ground where he had fallen. The elephant surveyed the scene for an instant, gave a short snort'and started at a brisk pace up the railroad track. As soon as'he was out of reach King was picked up apparently lifeless and conveyed across the street to- a barber shop, where several doctors were summowned. In the meantime the elephant continued up the track, and the report getting abroad that he was loose in the streets, the excitement increased. "The .erowd which - first collected about' -the crossing and the door of the shop ‘into which King had been carried scattered up the street, and . all sorts ‘of Treports were atloat, no one being able on account of the darkness to determine the where-abouts-of the elephant, It was suggested that a party be organized to start in pursuit with the view of shooting him, but before any plans could be ‘formed it was learned that the circus ‘men were following him and would no - doubt succeed in capturing him. To do this they had to ‘take with them Mary, the female elephant, and The Boy. ~Chief had ‘turned up Fifth Street on arriving at the crossing and the other -elephants were driven rapidly after him. On, arriving at Tryon Street he stopped for a moment and then went directly across to Church Street, ‘where he was seeured by being chained to’.the other two elephants. The three :were then driven down Tryon Street tewards the point.whence they had started, followed by a erowd. The animals moved along quietly until they arrived at the Market House, when there was a united movement towards the pump. An attempt was made to drivé them on, but they refused to go and the expedient of allowing them to drink 'was resorted to. In the movements about the pump-the chains became entangled and the three began to move round and round, drawing them gradually together. Chief’s temper was aroused and he began to ‘bellow.. The wild, weird noise threw a panic into the crowd and there was a confused retreat. FKinally, by the vigorous use of . goads and dg’itoh-forks the three elephants were made to take their respectwe places and the slow move‘ment towards the tents was continued. ‘At last they were gotten there and were securely fastened, but the excitement continued for hours afterward. A half- ' hour after the accident King was breathing with difficulty and his face was swollen: and blackened. .He had all the appearances of a dead man but for the -convulsive movement of his body caused by his painful efforts.te breathe. Hig skull was’ crushed. . King lingered till about eleven o’clock, when he died. He was buried this afternoon after the ‘circus. ‘performance. Mr. Lolow, the clown, said that King was somewhat to blameé: for the animal’s viciousness, as ‘he never would consent to any violent measures -to subdue him, Mr. Lolow said they had several other men in the show who could take care of him. He ‘was satisfied that the elephant did not know it was King when he made at him, as the keeper hafi him under absolute gontrol:. e e i

Thurlow Weed’s Romance.

Thurlow Weed lately told a correspondent how he came to adopt a daughter. “It was in 1845,” he said, “while I was in a barber-shop in Albany, I heard thata writing master named Chapman had been found dead in his room, and that his daughter, aged two years, had been alone with her dead father for. several hours. Chapman was a dwarf of intemperate habits. The little girl was to be taken to the alms-house the next morning. It was a sad case. I mentioned it to my family at the tea table, without manifesting any feeling, but I saw at once that my wife and children shared my interest, and when I was leaving ‘the house half an hour later my-daughter stood at the: hall door and said: ‘1 will go-with you, father.” She was right in her guess. Arriving where the waif was temporarily lodged, I found the child, and she came to me readily. I asked her if she - would go home with me, and she spoke up, ¢ Yes, sir.” ' I remember her sweet voice now. “Well, we took her home, and I'never think ‘of her without feeling sure that a blessing went into our house ' with that child.” ~ Mary Weed, as she was christened, died at the age of twelve. ' Mr. Weed subsequently learned that her mother belonged to a respectable English family, and that, before marrying the Albany .dwarf, she had been the betrothed wife of a British - officer, whose death blighted her hopes . and ‘sent her to this country. Mrs. Weed preserves a medal which Vigs . p;war,deg to Mary by the American lh. stitute when she was only seven, far excellent needlework. — Indianapolss Journdl: - . i o