Pike County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 August 1883 — Page 1

W. r. MIGHT, Editor and PubHmbar. VOLUME XIV. Drug Stars, earner Maim uxd Eighth atraatt. NUMBER 13. PETERSBURG, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1883.

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PIKE COUNTY IBMOtiT. NEATLY EXECUTED REASONABLE RATES* NOTICE!

WMfmF in the Massachuhe election of Unitbrought to a close n of Austin F. Pike ionrces. c ww jsarquia oi tsute to the C; ’ in New York a few dg to give a course of le cities of the country Arthur, el ._taking a tr Atlantic coast an the United St Dispatch. The Massachusetts Repul hold their State Convention in “U, converted tholic faith, rs ago. He stures in augt p along itee steamer licans will Boston Sept. ^ k rannsylvania Uemo rat Convention,in session at Harr: sburg Ou ^ 1st, declared In favor of civ 1-service reform, tariff for revenue, abolition of internal taxes, redemption of express and implied obligations as to co nage, mainly tshanoenf the dignity of Ai erican labor gd^the rights of American citizens at l abroad and reservat on of public -aetupl settlers. It ndorsed the ion of Governor attison and lies enforced by the Democratic WSf Representatives. Rc iert Taggart nominated for Auditor-General and l Powell for State Auditc :r. William Ccrti; delivered , address before the (ivil-service ion, in session it Newport, Hoyne, a t and wealthy citizen »f Chicago, i took place in that ity on the s attended by scores ai the repre- > citizens of Chicago. Mr. Hoyne was ope o i the victims of the rei ant terrible rndOrMd accident at Carlyon, K Y. The Democrats of Mini esota assembled instate Convention at St. Panl on the 2d and nominated W. W. tlcNair for Governor, R. L. Frazee for LieutenantGovernor, J. J. Green for Secretary of .State, John Ludwig for State TMaprer, J. W. Willis for AttorneyGeneral and P. Lindholm for Railroad Commissioner. Prohibition resolutions were passed. The platform declares for tariff for revenue only, approves the river and harbor bills, and calls for revision of the patent laws. T&e long contest • setts Legislature o^pr the eiecvi on oi ed States Senator was brought to a on the 2d by the election of Austin F. on the forty-second ballot.

The Emperor of Germany baa directed that the 400th anniversary at Martin Lather’s birthday be celebrated in all Protestant schools. Mbs. Mabt W. Blodgett, widely known as a nurse in the Naval Hospital during the war, died in Chicago, HL, a few days ago. ' A special train over the Chicago & Northwestern Railway, conveying President Arthur, General Sherida 1 and party, on route for Yellowstone Park, left Chicago, HI., on the 8d. Snt Chabi.es Dilks the other day e^led the attention of the House of Commons to the necessity for •griSt'fcffe in chutes and casualties. Fire destroyed half of one of the finest blocks of business buildings in Minneapolis, Minn., the other evening, causing a loss of $100,000. A posse in Arkansas pursuing the outlaws from Montgomery, Yell and Garland Counties came up with the Daniels brothers in the mountains of Perry County on the 30th. In the fight which ensued, two of the pursuers were killed and the desperadoes escaped. The extensive stables belonging to the Gordon House at Orangeville, Out., were destroyed by fire the other night. The celebrated trotting horses General Bramish and Highland, Jr., with several other valuable animals, perished; loss, $15,000. J Dispatches from Hot Springs, Affc., On the 31st said that the posse which! had a fight with the desperadoes in Porry County was led into an ambuscade by a farmer named Coker, and that the survivors of the posse had hung Coker to a tree. The posse was still in pursuit of the outlaws.)

bix men were killed by a collision of freight trains on the Troy & Boston Bailroad the other morning, near Pownal, Vt. The engines were driven into each other and fifty cars were derailed and piled on top of one another. The wreckage immediately took fire and the bodies of the victims were nearly consumed before they could be taken out. Hie accident was caused by the carelessness of a telegraph operator, who forgot to stop one of the trains at Petersburg Junction. A large building used as a manufactory of velvets, at Berlin, Germany, was destroyed by fire the other night. Three firemen were killed by falling walls. In an affray at Brooklyn, 111., a small negro settlement opposite St.' Louis, Henry Green, the Town Marshal, and Macy Jones, a negro were both fatally shot. Jealousy caused Peter A. Mezenaehl, a St. Louis (Mo.) German, thirty-two years of ago, to send a bullet crashing through his sleeping wife’s head and then turn the pistol against his own breast a few days ago. Both were severely wounded. A party of soldiers in Ecuador the other day sacked a village and murdered several persons. Three of the leaders were court-martialed and shot. Fire at Danbury, Conn., the other night destroyed the Deleter hat factory and contents, valued at $100,000. At McGregor, s Iowa, a block of buildings was swept away ' and ten firms, in various lines, lost $30,000. At Tale, in British Columbia, 360 cases of giant p^Wder exploded the other day, breaking all the windows in town. 'No one was killed. There had been no rain for two months in British Columbia up to the 2d :inst. Forest fires were raging extensively. William Surra, a Baltimore (Ud.) shop-keeper, having had a difficulty with rhis wife, the other day killed her and then committed suicide. Captain D. W. Pressell, a white [man sixty-four yea<s of age, was taken from the jail at Meyersville, Miss., where ihe was confined on a charge of assaulting a nine-year-old girl, by a mob of three Iranjdred men and hong iha the court-house A powder-mill explosion at Angouleme, France, the other dlay killed six per [sons and injured several ethers. The ‘damage to property was a million francs. A young Swede, s.iid to be an illejgitimate son of the King of Sweden, committed suicide in the Lutheran Church at {Englewood, a suburb f Chicago, HI., a few days ago. At Midlothian, T«:., on the 3d a tornado destroyed a hotel ind injured many people. Portions of How York and {Pennsylvania were alec swept by a storm the same day, doing me ih dai lage to crops

Charles Henry Lee, colored, was hanged at Richmond, Va„ on the 3d tor the murder of Daniel Miller, another colored man, in Henrioo County. Mbs. George A. Resseur committed suicide at Indianapolis, Ind., the other day by casting herself from a -window. She wan insane. In a dispute over a game of faro, at Denver, Colo., a gambler named Vasey shot Frank Rose, a well-known restaurateur, to death a few days ago. ■nSClfflULANEOUS. The customs receipts for the past month were $1,000,000 greater than for July of last year. The management of th^ Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad has been severely criticised for the recent acciden t which resulted in the death of nineteen persons. Some men discovered an Aztec idol in gold, which weighed thirty-seven pounds, in a cavern near Calistlahnlalcn, Mexico, a few days ago. Fearing it would be confiscated they broke it up and thus destroyed a priceless archaeological treasure. The 1o6S of life by the appalling earthquake in Italy was stated on the 31st to have been between four and five thousand. The stench from the unburied corpses was said to be intolerable. Nearly two thousand tons of chloride of lime had been used for deodorizing purposes. Troops ha.d been sent to the scene of the slaughter arid the people of Naples were affording all the aid in their power. The only American suf fererbythe earthquake was a Miss Van Allen, who was slightly hurt. Nearly five hundred men were at work endeavoring to clear away 40,000,050 feet of logs from the Michigan Southern Railway bridge at Grand Rapids, Mich, the only one left in'that city on the 31st* The water had receded three feet. Employes of the Indiana Road were working night and day on a temporary structure across the river. There were twelve deaths from cholera among the British troops in Egypt on the 31st. The disease was spreading among the Sussex regiment at Ismailia, where twenty men, including a captain and a doctor, died within three days. The deaths among the natives, exclusive of Cairo,numbered 065. There were 275 deaths at Cairo during twenty-four hours ended On the morning of the 1st. Four hundred laborers on the Pittsburgh, McKeesport $ Youghiogheny Railroad, in course of construction, struck on the 1st against a reduction of wages of from fifteen to twenty-five oents a day. About 1,000 were still working, but it was thought they would strike also. At Bellevue, O., fifty employes of the Nickel Plate Road burned an editor in effigy the other day because he had abused them in print. In a prize fight, near Chicago, HI., the other day, one of the contestants, named O’Connor, had his arm broken.

visiting It was reported on the 1st that there was a slight earthquake on the Island of Ischia, the scene of the recent terrible of July, but tt*t up by Jhe authoriti es |p deterged from The cable announces that the officials of German universities are preparing severe measures against duelling. The Executive Council of the Irish National Land League of America was in sessi on on the 1st in New York. In consequence of losses of rent through the operations of the land act, Irish landlords have asked the Government to adopt measures for relief. David Hall, manager of the telegraph office at Galveston, Tex., had two striking operators arraigned before ishe Recorder for assault the other day, but vras compelled to pay the costs. For questioning the decision he was fined twenty-five dollars and ordered to jail for one day. He then used profane language, and the sentence was duplicated. For refusing to take off his hat he got a third dose, and teas placed behind the bars. to be unlike anything hitherto developed among live stock in that vicinity. The monthly statement shows that the decrease in the public debt during the month of July was $7,900,590. The debt on August 1, less cash in the Treasury, was $1,543,190,616. The Louisville, Ky., Exposition open ed on the 1st with an immense crowd in attendance from all parts of the country.! including President Arthur and many other distinguished persons. Nine inmates of the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, O., were the other day expelled at the point of the bayonet by order of the Governor, acting under instructions of the Board of Managers. The charges against them were drunkenness and jumping the fence and leaving without permission. The road agents who robbed the Deer Lodge and Helena coach a few days ago have been arrested near Gallatin City, Mont., and part of the stolen property recovered.

small-pox and malignant lever, more fatal than yellow fever, was reported on the 2d to be raging on the coast of Gua temala. Yellow fever was playing havoc among foreign residents of Callao, Peru. King Humbert visited the scene of the recent earthquake on the Island of Ischia, Italy, on the 2d, and went over the ruins of the destroyed town. If was: believed that some persons buried under the falling buildings at the time of the earthquake were still alive in the rains. There were eight hundred and eighty seven deaths from cholera in Egypt on the 1st, including 237 at Cairo, three being among British troops. The total number of deaths in Egypt since the first outbreak of the disease to the 2d inst. was 11,000. Charley Ford, one of the slayers of Jesse James, was arrested at Kansas City on the 2d on an old indictment charging him with participation in the “Blue Cut” robbery. A MORTGAGE for $16,000,000 was executed by the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company the other day, to secure a loan which would enable them to take control of the road. The Treasury Department at W ashington has been informed that large quantities of low grade wool are received in Hew York from ports in the east end of the Mediterranean. Steps would be taken to apply quarantine regulations. The Louisville (Ky.) Legion escorted the presidential party to the Exposition grounds on the 1st, where the dense c rowd sent up a cheer of welcome. The Pres ident spoke briefly in formally opening the Exposition, and pulled a silken cord which set the ponderous machinery in motion. At six o’clock p. m. the distinguished guests dined with the Pendennis Club. IFully twenty thousand people witnessed the inauguration of the great show.

Assignments were made ti e other day by Charles H. Ward & Co., shoe manufacturers of Boston, Hass., with liabilities of $750,000, by F.L&l. D. Phinney, boot and shoe counter manufacturers of Bangor, He., with liabilities of $400,000, and by James McNichol, a fashionable tailor of St. Louis, Mo. A wat£h company at Lancaster, Pa., had also suspended operations, throwing 350 men out of employment. The trial of the Jews in Hungary for the murder of a Christian girl, whose blood it was alleged they intended to use in their religious ceremonies, has ended in an acquittal. At thj annual Faith Convention, which was in session at Old Orchard, Me., on the 3d, Dr. Cullis was annointing the halt and the blind with healing oil.. A Miss Ruth King, of Rohway, N. J., had announced herself cured of a deafness lasting twenty years. Four hundred employee of the Republic Mine at Humboldt, Mich., struck the other day for a restoration of twelve and a half per cent, in their wages, a cut having been made two months ago. Ninety ' coopers in St. Louis made a demand for an advance oft wo cents per barrel. The managers of the Canadian Pacific Railroad state that two million bushels of wheat will be sent to tidewater this season from Manitoba. The business failures throughout the country during the seven days ended on the 3d numbered Ijg, as against 190 for the week previous, the New England States had 33, the Middle States 33, the Western States 40, the Southern States 30, the Pacific States and Territories 11, Canada 25, and New York City 10. The British Minister to Morocco has been instructed to suggest to the Sultan the propriety of abolishing slavery in that country. A box of dynamite with lighted fuse was found in a factory in Fife, Scotland, the other day just in time to prevent an explosion. The first bale of hops this season arrived at New York on the Sd, being four days earlier than the first bale last year. It was grown in Oneida County, N. Y., and sold for fifty cents per pound. Three Irish informers, on reaching Melbourne, Australia, the other day, were prohibited from landing, it was alleged because a plot to murder them had been discovered.

Cablegrams announced on the Sd that the weather at Cairo, Egypt, was intensely hot, the average temperature under the canvas being 106 degrees. Several deaths had occurred from sunstroke. Hie deaths from cholera in Egypt on the Sd were 703, including 196 at Cairo. The London (Eng ) News asserted that the total number of deaths in Egypt to that date had jbeen 16,000. A revolutionary plot, backed by 23,000 surreptitious muskets, was reported on the 3d to have-been discovered, in Paris, France. In the abandoned-property room of the Treasury Department at Washington is a large quantity of Confederate scrip, bonds, etc,,,-representing several millions of dollars. In view of the purchase of , Ijonds for shipment to England, It is -said an effort will be made in tbV'tifext Congress to secure authority to destroy the relics in the hands of the Government. In addition to the Kuklnx outrages alleged to have been recently perpetrated in Georgia, reports came from Tennessee the other day of terrible barbarities practiced by midnight marauders upon white and colored citizens of War trance, for no known reason. Sanford McGinnis, from Indiana, was arrested by a special agent of the Interior Department for forging declaratory statements in the Mitchell and Yankton (Dak.) land districts. The accused leaped from a train, near Mitchell the other night, and nothing was found of him except his hat. . „ Reports received at the Post-office Department at Washington the other day, from two post-offices which collected thir-ty-four per cent, of the total revenue of the department in the second quarter of 1882, show an increase in the sale of postage stamps, postal cards, etc., for the quarter ended July 30, 1883, of $232,457 over the corresponding period of last year. A Scituate (Mass.) woman the other day sprinkled Paris green over her huckleberry bushes to keep trespassing berry-pickers out. ' - LATE SEWS ITEMS. The total number of deaths in Egypt on the 5th were 738, including 160 at Cairo, 23 at Rosetta, 109 at Garbiel, 44 in Dakalieh and 89 in Beni Suef. The British legation published a note refuting newspaper assertions that the spread of the cholera in Egypt was caused by British neglect to establish proper quarantine Regulations. , There wfere forty-nine deaths from yeilow-feyer at Havana, Cuba, during the

trees ended on me 4th. Excitement over the result of the recent Jewish trials in Hungary ran so high that the troops had to be called out on the 5th to preserve order. The Texas & St. Louis Narrow-gauge Railroad began business on the 5th with an unbroken track from Cairo, 111., to Gatesville, Tex. Frank Girron, of Indianapolis, Ind., disappeared some days ago. His wife dreamed the other night that she saw his body in White River, and sure enough there they found it. John Wale, a Chicago, 111. policeman who shot the wrong man in a fight, committed suicide in that city a few days ago. r There was a report from Washington, D. C., on the 5th that an offensive and defensive alliance had been concluded between Mexico and Germany, and that there had been a difficulty between the American and German ministers in the land of the Aztecs. The Commissioners of Immigration at Hew York have presented a very satisfying report on the subject of the assisted immigrants whose return to Ireland was made the occasion of a protest by the British Government, A fire in Poet street, San Francisco, Cal., the other morning destroyed almost an entire block. Thirty buildings were burned to the ground, among them the Winter Garden Theater and Druids’ Hall. The losses were estimated at over $300,000, with insurance of less than half that amount.Terrible riots against the Jews were reported to have taken place at Ekaterinoslav, Russia on the 5th. The troops killed ten men in dispersing the mob. Vanderbilt it is said will spend half a million in hotels and cottages at Bedford. He intends to make it the Saratoga of Pennsylvania. Charles W. Clements, shoe manufacturer of Dover, N. H., has failed for half a million in consequence of the recent failure of Shaw & Co., at Boston. It is now claimed that it will probably require an international sanitary commission to determine whether or not. the plague in Egypt is cholera ornot.

—.. . =— INDIANA STATE NEWS. The Indianapolis grain quotations arm Wheat—No. a Bed, fl.06X01.07. Com-*-No. a, 49O49X0. Oats—33Xffl34c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat—No. a Bed, $107X01.08. Corn—No. 3,61061 Xc. Oats -No. 2, 35O36X0. Bye—No. 8, 66X0 6TXc. Barley—No. 8 Fall, nominal. rive Indianapolis school-teachers — Misses Anna Wales, Isabel King, Rachel King, Bosa Dark and Miss Harrison—left for New York a few days ago on thej? journey to the Argentine Republic, where they hare taken service as teachers 'index a contract with the President of the Republic. The young ladies will be handsomely paid. They have signed for a year’s engagement with the privilege 'of five. A new post-office has been established at Bubo, Adams County. Tire office at Johnson ville, Warren County, has been discontinued. Rudolph and Christianna Schoff celebrated their golden wedding at East Germantown, Wayne County, a few days ago. Perhaps the most satisfactory feature of the affair to the well-preserved principals was the reunion of their twelve children, as healthy a dozen of scions as a pair of s turdy parents ever lived to see grow into manhood and womanhood. Rudolph ■ iSehoff was born November 27, 1608, and Christianna Stauffer November 14, 1811, isjth in Lancaster County, Pa., wheie they were married July 23, 1833. In 1819 Mr. Schoff came to Indiana to investigate the p romised land, making the trip on horseback ; and in 1851 he returned with his family, by railroad, steamboat and canal, an<T settled on the farm where the reunion occurred. Among the inmates of the Franklin County Asylum are twelve persons whose ages average eighty years and one month. The youngest is aged seventy-two and the oldest ninety. While William McPheeters, of Sugar Greek Township, Vigo County, was mowing in his yard a few days ago, his little :Jiree-year-old son was playing around and came up silently behind him, and as he swung the scythe around, after making a stroke, the point struck the little fellow iin the abdomen, just below the breastbone. The sharp steel entered to the depth of nearly three inches. The physicia n said the child could not recover. The contractors have begun work on the ilevee at Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, one of the Ohio River towns which suffered such great disaster from the early spring Hoods this year, and expect to have it completed in two months.

Charles T. Rober, an old citizen of Indianapolis, fell from the roof of his residence a few days ago, striking upon his head and shoulders and receiving fatal injuries. The shock paralyzed him from head to feet, the direct cause being a dislocation and fracture of the sixth collar vertebrae. Calvin Thrush, of Perry Township, Tippecanoe County, was engaged in helping Hrastus Robeson remove a large fan wider the other day, when the chain slipped, and j rail that was being used asa kyerstruok 3’hrush on the right temple, causing his ■ death. <- £ *; " * • v <Arthur Bewrid, of Wabash,1 an enfploye hit the Wabash School Furniture Company, fell upon a buzz-saw the other afternoon, a nd his hands were so badly cut that one 0 f them had to be amputated immediately, and it was thought that the other would also have to be taken oft. At Sullivan recently, in a friendly scuffle with Charles Newman, George Wright was struck with a pitchfork and fatally injured. A curious case of self-starvation developed itself at Lafayette a few days ago. Sieven weeks ago an insane woman named Brown was discharged from the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis as hopelessly incurable. She was brought to Lafayette and obtained a location at the poor farm, ftom that time she persistently refused every particle of food, not having tasted a morsel of any description except a small quantity of milk in forty-si# days. At 1 ength nature succumbed, and her death ensued. Colonel William Rogers, a prominent citizen of Fort Wayne, fell down stairs the ether night and fractured his skuJIL His death ensued the following day. While a number of yonng men were bathing in Pleasant Lake, near Auburn, De Kalb County, on a recent Sunday evening, one of them, Daniel Hoffman, was taken w ith cramps and sank immediately. The lake was dragged all night for his re mains'without success. He was seventeen years oil. A boy by the name of Peters, who lives near Stottkwell, Tippecanoe County, was plowing corn a few days ago, when the plowshare struck a root, throwing the boy in front of the plow close to the heels of the horse. This startled the animal, and he started to run away. The plow caught the lad in the abdomeh, almost tearing him to pieces. A seven-year-old child of J. B. Wilson, of New Albany, Floyd Connty, died very suddenly the other evening. It had played in the afternoon as usnal, and ate a hearty supper, bat shortly after was taken with convulsions and fell to the floor, expiring in a few minutes. Among the inmates of the Franklin Connty Asylum are twelve persons whose ages average eighty years and one month. The youngest is aged seventy-two and the oldest ninety years.

Albert Schellschmidt*pf Indianapolis, a young violinist of great promise, -who graduated at the Leipsic Conservatory, died recently in New York. A bunko man of Terre Haute, known as Coal-Oil Johnny, was killed by his wife the other morning, as he lay asleep in a disreputable house. During a game of base-ball at New A1 bany, Floyd County, a few days since a bat fiew out of the hands of George Dorn, one of the players, and fractured the skull of a little eight-year-old boy. A number of men assembled at John Elliot’s, near Waynesburgh, Decatur County, a few days ago, were resting in the barn waiting for steam in the engine to thrash, when the loft hay-mow gave way, falling on them. James Barton, aged seventeen, was killed, Eli Scott badly wounded, and several others slightly hurt. During the absence of Hr. and Mrs. Col* tins, of Shelbyville, Shelby County, from home a few days since, to amuse their three-months-old baby some children gave it a few green peas, some of which the little child put in its mouth, aud, one of the peas lodging in its windpipe, it choked to death before medical aid could be called. On a crowded excursion on the PanHandle Road a few days ago a young lady named Miss Chappies, of Greenfield, Hancock County, being carried by the station, leaped from the train, striking on her head and shoulders, receiving serious injuries. Charles W. Staley, a paralytic at Chester, Wayne County, sixty-two years old, committed suicide by cutting his throat with a rasor a few evenings since. His wind-pipe and jugular vein were severed. Bix persons were sleeping In a small room with him at the time. •

An Amusing Feature of It. The most amusing, if not the most instructive, feature of the DorsevBarker revelations is the new light thrown upot^two important political events: the nomination of Garaeld at Chicago and&Ke Republican victory in Indiana at th^Jdection in.the following October. The contemporary historians of the great moral idea party have “spread themselves,” so to speak, in "describing the 14 Providential circumstances" which led to the defeat of Grant and fhe selection of a candidate who had never been seriously thought of in connection with Presidential honors, and who was as much surprised when they_ were thrust upon him by the Convention as was Cincinnatns when summoned from tfee plow to the dictatorship of imperiled Rome. Who can. forget, or remember now without a burst of laughter, the accounts of Garfield’s behainor on that immortal occasion?—how he was “completely overwhelmed ” when his name was mentioned: how he “ vainly endeavored ” to decline the coming event in favor of .John Sherman; how ha. “insisted that consent was impossible;’’ how “terribly confused” he wa4 and how “the blushes of modesty and embarrassment mantled his cheeks" when the result of the final ballot was announced; and how he

“tnea to escape from the ovation of congratulation” which closed the pretty piece of business. The pic tnre drawn by Republican pencils was so graceful and attractive to the unsophisticated - popular mind, that the artist eriiaged m the preparation of the Garfield National monument m ight have incorporated it in the forthcoming marble or bronze, and so transmitted to admiring posterity the edifying spectacle of a Presidential nominee who did not want to be nominated, had not the slightest expectation of being nominated, and would not have been nominated if he eould possibly have helped it Alas for “the troth of history!” AliB for the design of the artist! Remorseless Dorsey and Baker have sat down upon both and flattened them Out forever. The world now knows, beyond all reasonable doubt, the real facts in the case; knows that Garfield knew all about the plans of his friends for springing him upon the Convention; knows that he was consulted in regard to the matter, and gave his consent with the utmost ing Sherman than of doing the same .for General Jackson or Julius Csesar; [knows that all, his confusion, surprise And modesty was only a neat bit of acting, and that he must have smiled in his sleeve at the game so succeesfnlly. Splayed. Thanks to Dorsey and Barker" '^■unimpeachable Republican witnesses promptness and pleasure; knows that he had no more mtention of nnminatare, too—one more Republican _'ideal humbug has been exploded, vanishes out of sight leaving behind , ting save a bad smell. A, worse smell,ahowever, is left by the Sfeeohd exploded humbug, the October election in Indiana, The Repub-. lican _ victory was duo to “a grand uprising of the people in behalf of Republican principles;” that it was “a great work of nplitical conversion,’ ML' “a moral tidal wave,” “a special providence for the salvation of the Union and the results of the war.” The world now knows that Garfield’s bargain and sale produced $2,000,000 Jpr campaign purposes; that $400,000 we»; to Indiana ** in crisp two-dollar bank notes;” that this money was used in' the most unscrupulous _ fashion, and that the result of the election no more represented the true sentiments of the people of Indiana than it did those of the people of Dahqmey. No such scandalous and shajfieless transaction as this is recorded in our-politieal annals, the Presidential conspiracy of 1876 always excepted; and both are fragrant Bowers in the bouquet of Republican rascality and rottenness. We can not help pitying t hose honest Republicans who voted for Garfield in 1880, believing him to be a champion Civil-service Reformer and as free from all complicity with corruption as an unborn babe. How their eyes and months must open in utter amazement as they read of his

snare m tue inaiana pertormance, ana how ntterly dismasted they must be at their own innocent gullibility! For sweet charity’s sake we will say nothing of the biographies which will have to be revised to meet the demands of the Dorsey-Barker documents; the funeral orations which must undergo the same process for the same reason ; the complete demolition of the idol which Republican hands erected for the Republican multitude to adore. Enough to say that biographers, orators and idolmakers have aoundant cause to curse Dorsey and Barker with the most ingenious and profuse profanity* and that if the Star-route trials have done nothing else they have contributed largely to the stock of popular information upon certain subjects heretofore enveloped in a thickxloud of sensational romance and impudent falsehood.—SL Louii Republican. A Harmony Necessary. It ought not to be necessary to remind any sincere and earnest Democrat that the country isron the eve of another Presidential election, nor to impress upon him tlm fifct that the Democracy can win that election only by thorough and complete harmony in their ranks. The Republican leauers fully understand the imponknee of a united party and they are striving with might ahd main to secure it now. They do not propose to put off the work of reconcil-, iation until next year or until the hour when the battle opens. The old Latin proverb has it ttyp it is lawful to be taught by the enemy,and the forethought ana prudence of the Republican leaders may well be emulated by those Democrats who are ready to produce dissensions. now with the expectation of harmonizing next year the conflicting elements they are at present prepared to engender. ■ The Democratic party w as in an actual majority of the wpters of the country in 1876. Divided counsels. in some of the States, notably Sew York, during the period intervening lictween the Presidential elections ot^ 1876 and 1880, lost the parly*eh*vantage-ground it had attained in 1874 and held lor two years thereafter. The division in the State of New York in 1879 which resulted in the defeat of. Governor Robinson unquestionably had a strong effect on the. vote in 1880. The breach could not be effectually healed In a single year. That lesson should not be met upon those Democrats who seem to be disposed to' stir up strife in the party now. Let them remember that but for the personal wrangle in New York, which gave the Electoral vote of that State to the Republicans, Hancock would be President to-day. Do they propose to repeat the experiment in 1879? If so they may as well make up their minds that the result of 1880 will be repeated also. The elections of last feu were &• ♦. . , '-A

skirmish line of the Presidential battle. They were carried by the Democrats. The approaching fall elections will be either a forward movement or a repulse of the victors of last fall. If they shall prove the latter the advantage gained at the last election will be lost and the ground will have to be fought over again. If the former the prestige of the victorious Democracy will be such that the battle of 1884 will be easily won. Is it needed^ then, that Democrats should be warned against the petty bickerings and dissensions which have never had and can never have any other effect than the destruction of the party morale and the consequent defeat of the party ticket? Let us be wise in time! Let us forget our disappointments and ambitions and postpone our diBerences> if we have any, until we shall have settled finally with the common enemy in lSSi.—IIarrvsbura (Pa.) Patriot. Struck ’Em Like a Cyclone. The astonishing statements attributed to Mr. Dorsey have struck the Republican press like a cyclone. The attempt is being made to discredit the story, but it will hardly succeed. Who is Dorsey? An answer to that question will throw some light on the probability of the story. Stephen J. Dorsey came to the political surface during the “reconstruction” period, being sent by the negro Legislature of Arkansas as a Senator to represent that State at Washington. Of course he was a stanch and stalwart Republican. He was so familiar with corrupt and desperate political measures that he was soon placed on the Republican National Campaign Committee and eventually became its Secretary. During his term as Secretary he became familiar with the methods of getting and carrying out the contracts for carrying the Federal mails. He engaged in that business and invented, the scheme for robbing the Treasury commonly called “the Star-route robbery.” By this means he accumulated a large fortune, a part of which he has invested in cattle ranches and silver mines in New Mexico. When the Presidential contest of 1880 opened it was speedily discovered, through the Republican defeat in Maine

early in the summer, that the genial Marshall Jewell, of Connecticut, Chairman of the Republican Committee, was wanting in something, and that their cause was lost unless the most desperate measures were resorted to. In this dire emergency the Republican leaders instinctively turned to Dorsey, gave him the management of the remainder of the campaign and begged him to save the grand old part}'. Dorsey accepted the task and went at it with' characteristic ardor and unscrnpulousness. The keystone of the contest was Indiana. If he could wrest that from the Democratic ranks the Republicans might elect the President. This he succeeded in accomplishing. Hancock was defeated. Garfield was elected. Every intelligent politician was aware that Indiana had been carrie' ^°ctoberof 1; kPreaident <gieet Arthur, at Delmonico’s banquet in New Tork, given in honor of Dorsey, openly and shamelessly lauded Dorsey for the exceedingly able manner in which he carried Indiana by the use of “documents —and soap”’ When Garfield was elected he offered Dorsey the position of Secretary of the Interior, but Dorsey declined. He had a “better thing” in the postal route frauds. All he desired was to shape the Administration so that he would be allowed tot steal with impunity. This it was agreed should be done. But to Dorsey’s great disgust,'® President Garfield attempted to take care of Dorsey and at the same time play the part of a great reformer. He put James and Meveagh into his Cabinet. They happened to be honest and hence they prosecuted Dorsey, the savior of the Republican party, for the Star-route frauds. Garfield was shot by a Republican statesman named Guiteau. James and McVeagh were put out of the Cabinet of President Arthur to make the task of saving Dorsey easier. But there was the Star-route prosecution, like a white elephant, left on Arthur’s hands. Arthur found himself in ah embarrassing position. He became seized with the desire of being elected President. He tried to carry water on both shoulders. He determined to be a reformer—just a little one for a cent—and he ordered the prosecutions, against Dorsey to proceed. Of eonrse Dorsey was to'be saved in the end. The trials ended in Dorsey’s acquittal by the jury. Before the bar of public opinion, however, he was found guilty. The trials cost him a great deal of money. The Star-route stealing was broken up. „ Dorsey was Out of a job. He felt that the Republican press, in its anxiety to shield the party from responsibility for Dorsey, had dealt severely with him. He doubted the fidelity of Arthur, though his acquittal ought to have saved him that suspicion. He became soured and angry and' determined that in his fall he would, like anotnjer Samson, drag down the pillars of the Republican temple. S« he has told the story revealing the inside plottings of the Republican campaign of 1880. The story hurts a great many Republican leaders. It reflects on the character of Garfield. This isunfortunate, for Garfield is dead and can not answer for himself. But Dorsey could not leave Garfield out of his story for the reason that he was the central

figure around wtncn t lie drama revolved. It is not necessary to go into the details of Dorsey’s exposures. We published the main facts of the case yesterday, not with the purpose of maligning any Eerson, whether he be dead or alive, ut because this story is a part of the political history of the country which every citizen ought to be informed of. The story is not a Democratic campaign “lie.” No campaign is in progress: The story does not originate with Democrats. It is told by Dorsey, once a Republican Senator, and but a few weeks ago the Secretary and actual manager of the Republican National Committee. If it is not true, let the Republican leaders who are living disprove it For the sake of the National credit we earnestly ht5pe it may be completely refuted. But that refutation should come speedDelays are dangerous. Dorsey’s ay. story tallies well with the known facts of the late Presidential campaign. It will take veiy strong evidence to overt, turn its inherent probabilities. It will not do for the Republican press to dismiss it with assumed contempt and to call it a piece of “ Democratic malignity.” The story has nothing of that nature about it. laris an official statement by a leading Republican of things that he saw and helped to perform. It is very serious for the Republican party. Unless it is absolutely annihilated by impregnable evidence, the people will believe it, and many thousands of Republicans will refuse to ypte with a party whose managers ate capable of such daring crimes aga the Republic.—Nfw Haven Register.

RELIGIOUS ASD EDUCATIONAL. —It is asserted that 100.000 negroes in the United States are Roman Catholics. —There are about 30.000 Christian Indians in the United States, and onehalf of these are Baptists.—Ckieaao Journal. —Up in Clackamas County, Oregon, when the school-teacher wants the boys and girls to come to school she blows a horn, and they come piling out; of tho- jcanyons toward the temple of learning.—Chicago Times. —Scotland, out of a population of4,000,000, sends 6,500 students to her universities, ywhile the two great English universities have but 5,000 students. Gets many, out of a population of 43,000,000, has 22,500 university students. —Mr. William Harrison McKinney, a full-blooded Choctaw, was the first Indian to graduate from Roanoke. He recently received the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and is but twenty-three years of a" e.whkh proves good aptitude in the Indian.—AT. i. Times. —President Ward, of Yankton College, D. T., who has just returned from an Eastern visit, has announced there that the college received a donation of $10,000 from one source, and a legacy of $40,000 in the will of another person in an Eastern State.—Chicago Herald. —An examintion of the work of the Presbyterian Board of Education for the last twenty-five years shows that there were only 109 failures of all kinds, out of 2,468 students aided in obtaining an education. The average cost of these candidates was $893.34 each.—The Interior. —Harvard asks for money for the erection of two or three large, well-* built dormitories, containing moderatepriced rooms tp-suit the wants of that large class whose parents are in moderate circumstances. This would do something to draw the students who now, upon mere considerations of cost, go to Amherst, Williams, Dartmouth or Bowdoin. But these dormitories cau not be built without great contributions.—JV. Y. Herald.

—Dr. John Hall, of New York, the famous Presbyterian divine, goes every day to pray with a lady who lies dangerously ill, and his ministrations are a great comfort to her. She said to him: “Doctor, they say I shall last all summer. Now do not allow my sufferings to spoil your vacation. When you are ready to" go, come and say good-bye to me.” “ Good-bye!” said he, “ No, I shall not leave you. These visits to you are my Vacation.”—N. Y. Tribune. —The Town Street Methodist Chureh, Columbus, O., expelled Councilman George P. Morrow from its membership, because he voted for the lfepeal of an ordinance prohibiting base-ball playing on Sunday. Mr. Morrow said he was opposed" to any desecration of tlfb Sabbath, but, since The masq’allonge is simply an enormous piekerel or overgrown pike, and exhibits no characteristics not common to these fish other than are the result of superior size. His distinguishing marks are the absence of teeth ini the anterior portion of the lower jaw, bare cheeks and half-naked (the lower half) opereles or gill-covers. He is ribt so abundant as the trout, 6r so handsome, cleanly and aristocratic a fish, since he exhibits a preference for shallow and less pellucid waters and reedy and muddy bottoms over crystal depths and gravelly'veaches. While Namayeush may be styled the leopard or tiger Of the open waters, this fellow is but the jackal and hyena of subaqueous forests and jungles, and a lover of filth and carrion. There is nothing frank, open or careless in his composition or methods. On the contrary, he is shy, cautious; sneaking, peeriug and crafty—an arrant knave and .coward, who never pursues his prey boldly aud fairly, but waits in hiding for unsuspecting victims, upon which he pounces with more than lupiDe ferocity and drags to his lair, there to gloat upon, torment and devour at his leisure. His very face, as well as the character of his teeth, is disposition. His eye is absolutely devilish iu its malignancy, and his lithe, active body, marked and variegated with black, green and white, in spite of a certain glittering beauty, is cold. The Museailenge. an index of his base

clammy ana snake-like in form and appearance. Namaycush is hot-headed, bold, fearless and pugnacious, stopping short at nothing; while Esox is cool, slow, calculating and crafty, and more than an ordinary tyrant,' in that he preys only upon those far weaker than himself and every way his inferiors in point of size. Eus delight is a shallow, reedy pool, where the lily pads and wild rice attract the water-fowl, and from beneath whose shadows he can silently and deftly poke up his-lone snout ana seize upon some temtsf end confiding duckling, which, to the amazement of a proud and happy mother, disappears suddenly in a swirl of water to pay tribute to incarnate rapacity. Nothing comes amiss to him that is flesh, whether clothed in fur, scales or feathers—not even stinking offal. Still, he will fight when cornered, and that, too, “good and strong,” and With all the wiokedness of his malevolent disposition; and his supple form is capable of all sorts of unheard-of twistings, writhing3 and contortions, as he now dives like a flash to the bottom, then reappears in mid-air, shaking his head like an angry bull and dashing the water in showers from his glittering sides, and again dashing and swirling about the pool, lashing it in his rage till it is covered with a mass of feathery, sparkling foam. He is marvelous in ins strength, and possesses an astonishing and never-ending repertory of feints and devices that try and puzzle to the utmost the arts ana wits of the angler; for in that long head of his there lurks a brain of remarkable fertility and cunning. He will bear more punishment by ten times than either trout or salmon, yet appears to suffer more, and when impaled upon the spear will turn and writhe and even sink his murderous teeth into the handle to make a fulcrum of his jaws whereby to twist himself off the barbed prongs, regardless of pain and cruel lacerations, and then seeks safety in swift suid inglorious flight, not alone from his great enemy, man, but from those of bis own race, immediate members of his family, who, should his wounded condition be discovered, gather from all quarters, and with ferocity unparalleled tear and rend his mutilated body like so many wolves, even satisfying their ravenous appetite upon the last quivering morsel.—Tk* Omlimnt.

FACTS AND FIGURES. —Connecticut devotes 90,000 acres to the cultivation of the oyster. —The corn crop in Georgia and Florida is said to be the best ever grown in the two States. —At a recent salo of Alderney cattle in Frankfort, Ky., the bull ‘Wanderer brought *2,175. —There are now not less than 12,000 Chinamen in British Columbia and the number is increasing fully 100 per month by the arrival of ship-loads in Victoria. —The Navajo Indians will have a wool clip this year of over 800,00Q pounds. The hides and pelts that they will handle will amount to about 600,000 pounds.—Chicago Times. —Florida constructed more miles o) railroad last year than any other Southern State except Georgia; and at her present rate or railroad building she will discount Georgia this year.—Chicago Journal.

—The American railroads are worth almost twice as much as Great Britain’s railroads and shipping combined. The British shipping is valued at $1,000,600,000; British railroads at $8.700,000,• 000; American railroads at $6,300,000,000.—N. r. Suit. > —Texas papers claim that the profits on cattle-raising in that State have averaged 100 per oent. in the past five years, whUe in some cases they hav^ reached 600 per cent., and the claim is substantiated by an array of statistics that abundantly prove the case. —According to figures published by the Commercial and Financial Ckron~ icle, the cotton crop of the season 188288 will be the greatest ever yet produced in the South. It is estimated at 7,100,i 000 bales, which is more than 1,600,000 bales latter than that of last year and a half a million larger than‘that of 1880-81, the largest hitherto recorded. —The first steel rail rolled in America was rolled at the North Chicago Rolling Mill Company's works in Chicago, May 26, 1866, a little over eighteen years ago. That steel rail cost those who made it $500,000 in experiments and outlay, and when it was made there was nothing to show for the outlay, but the rail was an established fact. Today American steel rails are preferred to those made in Europe.—Philadelphia Times. —In New York there were 68 toypistol accidents last year, of which 18 proved fatal; in Massachusetts, .39, ot which 26 produced death; in Pennsylvania, 12, of which 10 proved fatal; in Connecticut,. 10, of which fivo were fatal; in New Jersey, 10, of which five proved fatal; ih Rhode Island, four, of whieh three were fatal;jin Maine,six, c? which four were fatal, and in Chicago^ 60, of which 19 proved fatal—Chicago Herald. —Something like $100,000,000 is 3tent every summer by American travers in Europe, the New York Mail thinks. ' are not less than $8,000,000, and the Philadelphia Press thinks $6,500,000 a low estimate of the receipts from Long Branch to-Cape May.

WIT AN D WISDOM. —A man who invests money in the glue business is very apt to get stuck. —Bochester Post. —If you are really determined to expand your chest the best way to do it is to carry a larger heart. —The consciousness of wrong-doing is to the soul what a forgotten pew in a boot is to the foot You can’t be nappy unless you do something about it.—N. Y. Examiner. —A Mandan man,whose wife knocked him out of bed in a rage and bunged Sis eyes, tells his friends that he is suffering from inflammatory room-mate-ism.— Chicago Times. —“ Your composition,” said an Austin school-teacher to Johnny Fizzletop, •* is the worst in the lot Yon begin by putting no period at the end of the last sentence.”—Texas Siftings. —It is all very well for a man to believe that the earth revolves on its axis, but when he becomes thoroughly convinced that he is himself the axis the less you have to do with him the better. —N.Y. Herald. —“Ma!” screamed a little boy on Lexington avenue yesterday, “I ain’t a going to play with Tommy Miller any more.” “Ain’t going to play with who?” “Tommy Miller.” “Why?” “ Cause he won’t play with me.”—N. Y. News. —A Southern exchange excitedly asks: “ Where is Dakota’s fair?” Right hero in Bismarck, friend, dressed up in calieo and silk and laces and ribbons and embroidery and a lot more things we don’t know the names of. Come up and see ’em.—Bismarck Tribune. *. \ —Twenty-five years ago a young la- , dv of this town had a singular dream. She consulted a dream book, and learned that she Would have four husbands before she reached the age of thirty. This made her rather independent, and she is bow an old maid of for-ty-two, and has never had a beau. Some dream books are not as reliable as they might be.—Norristown Herald. —College students don’t please as table waiters. When you call one a miserable jackass for spilling the soup down your back and giving you a saltcellar Med with sugar, he of course can’t amrer back, as it is against the rules of the hotel, but he can say something to another waiter in Greek which you can’t understand, but which you feel sure is horrible abuse of yourself, and it’s awful maddening. —The density of ice differs very much with the longitude. Now, ten pounds of ioe in Burlington, la., is about three feet square; in Cincinnati it is about the size of a soap-box; in Pittsburgh it is as big as a stove-pipe hat; in Philadelphia it has to be put in the ice-chest directly from the wagon, or it will melt away V before you can run into the house with ) it, and in New York, if you ask a dealer for ten pounds of ice, he laughs in a hollow manner and says he never heard of such a thing. You take fifty pounds or nothing, aim then he weighs It on a letter-scale.—Burlington Hawkeye.J - —There is nothing in this world that pays such large dividends as cheerfulness. We are apt to forget that we are not by nature intended to be snapping turtles. Grumbling is the one thing which, as the countryman said, we “ortent” to do, and therefore it is the one thing we take most delight in doing. Idle would be sweeter andbrighterror you if yon would speak this little piece to yourself every morning: Whistle and hoe, das as yon go. Shorten the row by the songs you know. Hot temper makes many enemies. Neither a word nor a stone once let gq can be called bank,—N f. BtruUe