Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1882 — Page 7

Rensselaer Republican, BY GEO. E. MARSHALL.

A MATTER OF OPINION.

Comments of the Press Upon the Sennits of the Election. What Democrats, Republicans and Independents Think. Democratic Opinion. [From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] The Democrats have achieved victories -which justify an exhilarating hope that the next President will be a representative man of their political faith, and that the reins of government will return to the party of the people. The result has been brought about through the disruption of the Republican organization and the general dissrust of the people with the bosses and the tireless papsuckers; and no party can afford to be heedless of the lesson conveyed, lhe party which has had almost a monopoly of the distribution of the spoils has suffered such a tremendous rebuke that it can only recover from the shock it has received through the blundering of its opponents. [From the Louisville Courier-Journal.j The Democrats have gained all over the North. The Republicans have made their only gains in the Southern States. This is well; neither party is solid in either section. The next Congress will be Democratic. The majority will be large enough; it will, perhaps, be too large. With this accession of power comes new responsibilities. If the Democrats meet these as they should; if they are true to their convictions, their traditions and their promises; if they will at once perfect measures for a gradual reduction of taxation a da revision of the tariff; if they will enact laws which shall take the civil service out of politics and make free citizens of the public servants, there is no doubt whatever the vote of confi lence to-day will be repeated in >BB4. If, on the contrary, they violate or ignore the pledges given m this canvass, this great party will give way to a greater and a better one, which will execute the people’s will [From the St. Louis Republican (] It is not possible for any one to view current history without something of the bias of selfish interest and pride of opinion. It is also certain that no one knows what the influence of so sweeping a change may be, because its full effects are contingent upon the uncerta n actions of men in the future into whose motives so many conflicting factors enter. A great battle which might be decisive of the fate of armies and the power of nations often proves, from the course of subsequent events, of little consequence and of no real value to the victors. What has become of the Republican majorities apparently sw pt away in Pennsylvania, New iork and other States ? The voters who contributed to those majorities in other years are still in the flesh, an I all but a margin of them are stid Repub icans. It will not do to conclude that S.ates lately Republican have al at once become Democratic. It would be easy for the Democratic party, by an unwise and injudicious course by a failure to appreciate the responsibilil ties now thrown upon it, to cause a rea tion and even a revulsion which would place it further from permanent victory than it has been sincq 1872. [From the New York World.] How little the disaffection of the “hilfbreeds” has really had to do with the overthrow of the Republi an party is shown by the overwhelming vote given to Mr. Belm nt in the First Con ressional district. Mr. Belmont’s competitor was put into the field by frieads of Mr. Blaine, and k pt there solely by the r contributions and their activity. W.iatwa< the result? That Mr. Belmont goes back to Congress at the head of a majorit more than four times as arge as that by which he was or ginallv sent to Washington, This single fact suffices to show that the Democratic party has -been called back to power in New York, not because the Republicans of New York think Pres.dent Ari hur more or less worthy of confidence than Mr. Blaine, but because the people of New York are weary of feedin on the east wind o the Re. üblican promises of reform. “A plague on both your houses” is the brief m< ral of ye- ter ay’s tremendous popular verdict. It rings tne knell of he Republican organization. It gives notice to every young aspiring man in the country that the future belon ,s to new issues and to the Democratic party. Republican Explanations. [From the Cleveland Herald.J The general disaster which overtook the Republican nominees cannot be laid to merely local causes. The liquor question may have had a certain influence here and there, but wh>re the d moralization was greatest that quest on was no in the slightest degree an issue. Tie real cause was the same everywhere, was at once general and local, and was of sufficient potency to overbear the strongest local issues and bury *he best tickets beneath a mountain of adverse votes. [From the Buffalo Express.] The rebuke visited upon Arthur’s stalwart administration the most crushing ever dealt out to'a political faction—is a rebuke not only to the men at the head of the machine, a reb ike not only to tieir methods, but a rel uke to and a repud ation of the wnile stalwart idea. That idea is, e seutially, that a party s an army, and that the only duty, the only right, of the men in the ranks 1< to ouey their masters -their bosses. Tne men in the ranks yesterday showed that they are the masters, that their will must be* carried out by the party leaders, and that self-constituted leaders who attemnt to rule ather than to serve will be tried by drum head court martial and shot upon the sp >t The lesson has b ten wr tc n up large, so th it they who run—the stalwarts, to-wit—may read. No man will have any excusefor mi understanding it hereafter. [From the Chicago Inter Ocean.] While d saster has been anticipated by thinking Republicans all over the country they nev r fully realized such a flood as is reported in Massachusetts, Connecticut. New York and Pennsylvania. It looks a good deal like a case of t-amson and the temple. The people undertook to punish the bosses, and fell with them under the ruins of. the temple. There will however, be a resurrection of the temple and a resuscitation of the victims The Repub ican party is of too grand a history and too promising of rfoble purpose in tbe future to go down. Croakers to the contrary, its mission is not yet fi led. The result of yesterday does not show that Republicanism has a less strong

hold on tbe country than it has held for years, but rather tuat the purifying process is going on that it may rise to grander flights and nobler deeds. [From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I It may be said that the Republicans needed this defeat They invited it, and had it not come the bosses would have been very sure to bring it on two years hence. Fortunately a strenthened Republican Senate, with a R public in ive behind it, will be in place to i revent Democratic c ipers m the Hou=e from being seriously detrimental to the general welfare, while the Democrats will show their incapacity for Legislative work beyond peradventure. They have secured jusi enough rope to hang themselves with, and tbe few wise advisers they have cannot prevent them from mak ng use of it, Tue effort to control them has been made in vain time and again. Thus there wil. be two strong influences at work to win Republican success in 1884, namely: the exposition of their own weakness s on the part of the Republicans and the demonstrated necessi y of correcting them, and the exhibition of Democratic inability to govern. In fa t, this Republican defeat is a pretty good th.ng it it is only viewed rightly. [From the Cincinnati Commercial]. President Arthur succeeded, and was immediately beset by the gang who had been disappointed in Garfield. He resisted many of their most vicious and unseemly demands, but they have been sufficiently dictatorial, and have so far flavored the Administration with their vindictive follies that the New York election of yesterday serves as an object les-on Asa party the Republicans are about where they were eight years ago. It has lost under Arthur the' ground gained after it got rid of Grant. If the Republican pariy is to have a future —if it is to retain the national Gov rnment beyond the next Presidential e ection—it must be relieved of its bosses. Stalwartism must be blown away ike a bad smell in a high wnd And we must drop the tanaticri crusade: sin behalf of pi etended temperance reformation. Thecountry distrusts the Democratic party, and there are an abundance of voters opposed to that parly to def eat it if they can be peimitted to exercise their common sense and common rights of Republican citizens; but they are not to be suooi limited to the vulgar domination of bosses and the despotic caprices of vainglorious pretenders to statesmanship. [From the Chicago Tribune.] The self-inflicted chastisement cannot fail to be beneficial to the Republican party. It will teach the men temporarily elected to power and place that they can be deposed as readily and promptly by the same popular will that lifted them from obscutily. The lessons of this defeat wilt be instructive. It wid but clear the way for a renewal by ’he people of the poll les of the Republican party and the restoration of the Government to the control of that paity in 1884. Independent Comment. [From the Chicago Times.] A year ago such a political revolution as was consummated in this country yesterday would have been considered impossible. Today it excites not even a ripple of SurpriseMuch has been done in the past three months by the chiefs of the defeated party to convince the American t eople that, in the interest of political morality and common public decencv, a change was necessary. The effect of that work will be almost universally accepted as in accordance with the eternal fitness of things. Amid tne general slaughter of the political bo ses, the like of which hasn’t been seen in a lifetime, it must be matter of regret that the most intolerant as well as the meanest of them all, Mahone, of Virginia, escapes with slight injury. Still his victory, if it is as represented can hardly be more than short-lived. The President, having lost such a list of States as New York, his home; Pennsylvania, the home of his trusted Lieutenant, Mr. Don C meron; New Hampshire, the home of his aggressive Secretary of the Navy; Connecticut, Ohio, possibly Michigan; Indiana, which had no savior this year, Mr. Star-Route Dorsey, whom the President toasted two years ago, being almost within the shadow of tne penitentiary; Wisconsin, possibly; Colorado, t e stalking-ground of his man Teller; California and divers and i-undry other strongholds of his party, will hardly care to exert himself again for tbe satisfaction of a petty boss in the Old Dominion. Though it exhibit unmistakable signs of life, the President will probably be inclined to let the tail go with the hide. Unsustained by Federal patronage, Mahone will surely go to the wall What a Greenbacker Thinks. [From the Chicago Express.] It is a Democratic land-slide, as was expected. The Republicans, disgusted with Hubbellism, bossism and stalwartism, have let the thing go by default The Democratic pariy has won, not upon its own merits, but upon its enemy’s demerits. In the South the Democrats have scarcely he'd their own. Tue people of Massachusetts have taken that lively citizen, Ben Butler, down from h s shelf and dusted him off for action. He seems to be almost as good as new. Two men survive the cra-h of machines and the wieck of st teamen this year—Butler and B aine. They have carried their States. lheir white plumes will be seen in the fray again. Folger is terribly beaten. The aam nistration is humi.iated. New York presents her compliment to tbe dandy President B„alwartism is as dead as Guiteau. The people are sick of all old spoils f ction . They are ready for a new deal. The old lines cannot stand the storm much longer. The first reports give no details of Green-back-Labor and Anti-Monopoly vot-s. They will be fished up out of the bottom of the boxes in a few days. Let us wait patiently for the official count

No Suen Word as Fail.

We begin to think tuat Richelieu’s creed was right; there is no such word as fail in tbe vocabulary of the man who is bound co succeed in his undertakings. In this world of ours there are men of men. We see on the one hand young men well educated, with perfect brain and f>rm, unable to cope with the world. On the other we find men without education, with imperfect physical development, overcoming natural disadvantages achieving honorable success. There is residing somewhere in New Jersey a man who was born without arms, and yet can write remarkably well, chiefly by using his lips. His ambition, backed by a persevering industry has enabled him to overcome difficulties mat seemed insurmountable, and he therefore qualified himself for an active- business man. He is now nearly thirty years of age, and is an object of absorbing interest to all who come in contact with him.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

Explosion of a Boiler in a Cleveland Iron Mill. ■ —■" * - 0 Several Persons Killed and Many Badly Wounded. [Telegram from Cleveland, Ohio, t A terrific explosion occurred at a little after 4 o'clock thisevening in lhe Forest City iron-works, operated by At ;ins & Clark, at tbe union crossing, Newburg. The main boiler of the m il suddenly exploded while the day men were going from their work, killing three or four men and fatally wounding a number of others. The mill was almost entirely wrecked. One-half of the boiler went through tbe roof and landed several hundred yards to the north, while the other half went a similar distance in an opposite direction. Walls were blown down, a tall smoke-staok Ipft leaning over ready for a fall, while the dead and injured were scattered in all directions. A tire/almost instantly broke out, but it was soon got under control, and did little or no damage. Help from Newburg and the city was instantly summoned, and as spon as possible the injured and dead were carried into the office of the works and cared for. Several men are now missing, and it is not known whether they are dead under the ruins, hidden in the water-course near by or gone to their homes without reporting themselves.

The dead and injured accounted for up to 9 o’clock to-night are as follows: John Williams, the master- mechanic. He was found lying so deep in the mud and so discolored by the earth about h’im that he would not have been noticed had not John Gallagher, no od' man who l.iy beside him, called out: “There are two of us here.”, Williams’ head was horribly crushed in and his body broken all to piecea John Gallagher lived until 9 o’clock, when he died also. He was a piler on the guidemill. His face was terribly bruised, his nose torn off and his head full of holes, from which the brains oozed. As he lay on the floor in agony his wife hurried in, and, kneeling by his side, asked: “Do you know me, John?” He said that he did, when she placed her hand on his face and said quietly: ’Put your trust in God, call on Him and trust Him. ” He said that he would, and then begged and i egg< d to be laid on his sidei He lingered in great agony until 9 o’clock, when death put an end to his pain. Ano her man instantly kil ed was Sydney D. Wright of Wyandotte, Mich, wno stood beside a friend who had accompanied him in search of work. The whole top of his head was blown off. ’ William Wilson, of Chicago, Wright’s friend, was struck on the hip and foot by some of the debris, thrown down and seriously but not dangerously injured William Atkins, a roller, stood some 200 yards away from the boiler. He was struck by something and cut instantly in two, the body going in one direction ana the limbs in another. His head was mashed to a jelly and ground into the dirt Francis P. Bradley, a carpenter, had an arm and a leg broken and was cut in the groin and back. His case is hopeless John Mollaney, fireman, had a leg broken, and was very t-everely bruised. G.- H. Hanna sat on a bench beside Atkins and was lifted by the concussion of the air, carried over the shears, and thrown on the ground. A roll weighing two tons struck within a few feet of him. A brick struck him on the back of the head as he was flying through the air, and rendered him insensible. The damage to mill in dollars will be several thonsnnd

THE ARMY.

Synopsis of Gen. Sherman’s Annual Report. The annual report of Gen. Sherman shows the general staff to consist of 573 officers and 1,212 enlisted men. The army proper consists of 10 regiments of cavalry, 431 offi cers and 6,383 men; 5 regiments or artillery 280 officers and 2,493 men; 25 regiments of infantry, 876 officers and 8,773 men; totab including unavailable men detailed at various points, 2,165 officers and 23,024 men. He says the experience of the world shows that but 66 per cent, of an army is available for active service, and, as 25,000 men are really needed for a standing army, he recommends that the limit of the army be increased to 30,000. The officers and men in the army are now, he Bays, overworked, and must continue so, unless the number is increased. He reviews the work’ of the year somewhat in detail, arriving at the conclusion that there has been a less number of Indian outbreaks in the year than at any time for twenty years.. Part of this is due to the efficiency of the army, and part to the advancement of civilization in the West. The report devotes considerable space to the growth of the great West, and says that, now that the transition period is pa-t, it is due to the Government to select certain strategic points'for permanent army posts, and construct comfortable buildings on them, so as not longer to compel the officers and men to live in holes in the ground, shanties, or green cottonwood log huts, as heretofore. There have been 1,741 trials by court-martial daring the year. He recommends a change in the system of courts-martial, saying the S resent system was established by custom i the English army a hundred years ago. when the habit was to dine at 3 o’clock and get drunk after dinner, which habit is now, ntropily, done away with. Tne number of desert ons during the.year was 3,721, and enlistments and re-enlist-ment >7,341. Commenting on the number of desertions, he says many are those of men who enl.st in Eastern cities, and after getting free transportation West desert, knowing there will be l>ttle effort to bring them back or punish them. Tbe remedy, he thinks, is in better treatment of those who stay, andjjjore severe punishment of deserters. He recommends an increase of the pay of men to #l6 per month, instead of #l3, as now, and that punishment for desertion be made more severe, even inflicting capital puni-hment in aggravated cases, as is cone by other countries. general condition of the army personnel has been improved, as has the general condition of the people of the country at large. The recent rifle contests have made great improvem nts in the marksmanship of the men, and be recommends an appropr ation for continuing the work. He reoommends the adoption of some plan by which regiments and officers can be given definite terms in remote posts and then be al owed to return to the comforts of civilized life, and their places be taken by others. He recommends the employment of teachers for schools at posts, saying men from the army can not be spared for this purpose, and remarking that as officers, in spite of sa e ad vice, will marry and have families, they ought to be provided for in the best manner possible.

Poor Return for His Money.

It was at the shore—a gent eman was chatting on his cottage porch with two or three guests. His pretty daughter

comes up from the beach, first out of the surf. “Oh, papa!” she exclaimed; “I was nearly drownded!” Papa, turning pathetically to his friends: “By the powers, gentlemen, do you hear that? I have spent more than $5,000 on that girl’s education, and to-day she was nearly ‘drownded! * ”

A NOVA SCOTIA HORROR.

Frightful Human Holocaust at Halifax. <? Thirty-one Human Beings Roasted to D;ath. ■ A dispatch from Halifax, in Nova Scotia, says that at midnight, while all hands were sleeping, fire broke out in the bake-house, in the basement of the Poor Asylum building. Exactly how it originated is not very clear, but the smoke of the smouldering wood spread through the building into the dormitories and caused the utmost terror among four or five hundred inmates of the institution. There was no immediate danger, so the officers of the asylum did not take steps to remove the inmates. An alarm was sounded, and the stroke bell had scarcely commenced when reels were run out of the engine houses, as one or two men happened to be about A few people who had not retired, and others who lived in the neighborhood, ran to the building. They found smoke issuing from the windows all over the building, but no flames were to be seen. In the west wing old women and children were seen at the windows, crying to be let out, and, ns they began breaking glass, it was feared they would throw themselves to the ground. A sturdy ax man dasned at the door leading from this wing into the yard, and with a few vigorous blows of his' ax knocked it in. The stairways were crowded, and out came a procession of women nursing infants, old, gray-headed grandmas, and feeble old men. All were screaming, and as they reached the fresh air without they ejaculated their thanks, and then began calling for this one and that one until all was a babel of confusion. Then it became known that those in lhe upper wards of that wing were helpless. Some of the firemen and fire wardens and aidermen and clergymen, and others who were among the early arrivals, hastened up, and willing hands were soon getting the blind, halt and lame down the long winding stairs. The work was a very slow one, but finally that wing was emptied. In the meantime the n tines in the basement, which the Superintendent, engineer and officials were trying to keep under, spread to the base of tbe long air shaft or elevator reaching to the top of the main building. The draught here swept the flames upward with tremendous force and in a few seconds the heaviest part of the conflagration was in the top of the mam building. The story just under the eaves in this building was used as a hospital, and in it were about seventy patient- 1 , most of them perfectly helpless. The fire was now fiercely burning right in the hospital and above it The heat was so intense that lead poured down irom the roof in streams of brilliant fire, and slates flew everywhere in deadly showers, rendering any near approach to the building almost certain death. Notwithstanding this, there were hundreds standing outside who would willingly have entered the building if they could have found their way through the place. Indeed, several did o in, but without guidance could do nothing in the immense building, and bad to return to the yard. An attempt was made to raise, ladders to the windows, but the ladders were too short, and after a fireman was knocked do »n by falling briok, and it was seen that the ladders even would be swept away in a few minutes, the attempt ceased. The fire burst through the roof, and the scene was one never to be forgotten. Far above the roar of the flames and crack of burning slates were heard the cries of the wretched patients n the hospital, who were roasting to de ith. Most of them, as before stated, were helpless, and could not leave their beds, and perhaps were stifled before the cruel flames reached them, but others were seen to dash themselves against the windows and cling to the sa-hes till their strength was exhausted or their hands burned off, and they fell ba k into the seething caldron of flames. A woman was seen to drag herself to the corner window, and, forcing her body half out th ough the iron bars ifll she could breathe cool air, she remained in that position till her head burned off. As far as can be ascertained, thirty-one persons were burned to death—eight men and twenty-three women. The building was constructed in 1868. It cost #BB,OOO. and was insured for #50,000.

SHIPWRECK.

The Steamer Westphalia Sinks an Unknown Steamship Off Portsmouth. Nothing Seen of the Unknown Steamer, and Not a Soul Saved. [London Cablegram. 1 The steamer Westphalia, of the HamburgAmerican line, from New York Nov. 2 for Hamburg via Plymouth, has put into Portsmouth with a hole in her port bow received by collision with an unknown steamer off Beachy Head early this morning. A boat lowered from the Westphalia to search for the other steamer is missing. It is believed that the-missin? steamer has gone to the bottom with all on board, and also the missing b at of the'Westphalia, which contained an officer and six men The officers of the Westphalia report that it was intensely dark at the time of the collision, with a heavy sea. The collision occurred at 2o’clock in the morning. The missing steamer was bark-rigged and not seen after the Collision. Capt Ludwig, of the Westphalia, immediately di-patebed a boat to try to find her. He then made ready all the other boats, in the event of water gaining on the Westphalia. All the pumps were kepi going without intermission. The mails and ninety passengers landed at Portsmouth this afternoon and wid be forwarded to their destinations at the earliest possible moment. Th Westphalia is now moored alongs de the dockyard and kept clear of water by her pumps. The cargo is n t greatly damaged. Great praise is accorded Capt Ludwig, officers and crew, for coolness and courage from the moment of the collision. There was a very heavy sea on, aud it was too dark to see the ship’s length. FORTY PRBSONH DBOWNED. The steamship Angelico, plying between Gifla and Hull, has foundered in the North Sea, and forty persons drowned.

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

Simple Remedies for Common Ailment*. A pinch of common table salt disolved in water will relieve a bee-sting. Pains in the side are most promptly relieved by the application of mustard. To cure sneezing plug the nostrils with cotton wool. The effect is instantaneous. BitoKF.k limbs should be placed in a natural position and the patient kept quiet until help arrives. If an artery is severed, tie a small cord or handkerchief tightly above it until a physician arrives. or eight successive applications of the white of an egg will prove a most efficacious remedy for a burn. A good powder of snuff which will cure catarrh is made of equal parts of gum arabic, gum myrrh and blood root. Burns and scalds are immediately relieved by an application of dry soda covered with a wet cloth, moist enough to dissolve it. To cure earache, take a pinch of black pepper, put it on a piece of cotton batting dipped in sweet oil, and place in the ear and tie a bandage around the head, and it will give almost instant relief. If your hands are badly chapped, wet them in warm water, and rub them all over with Indian meal; do this several times, and then in the water used to wash off the meal put a teaspoonful of pure glycerine. An excellent liniment for toothache or neuralgia is made of half an ounce each of oil of sqpsafras and oil of origanum, one and a half ounce of tincture of capsicum, and half a pint of alcohol. Apply to the face on a flannel cloth. One of the simplest and best remedies to be given to children troubled ' with worms is poplar bark. Physicians use it with marked success. It can be bought at any drug store. Take a little pinch of the bark—as much as you can hold on the point of a penknife—and give it before breakfast. It has a clean bitter taste and any child will take it. Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way to accomplish the deed is take a knife or grater, and shave off in small particles about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its amount of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as possible. Almost instataneous relief will follow. Treat flesh wounds in the following manner: Close the lips of the wound with the hands, hold them firmly together to check the flow of blood up til several stitches can be taken and a bandage applied; then bathe the wound for a long time in cold water. Should it be painful take a panful of burning coals and sprinkle upon them common brown sugar and hold the wounded part in the smoke. Milk qnd lime water is.said to prove beneficial in dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach. The way to make the lime water is simply to procure a few lumps of unslacked lime, put the lime in a fruit car., add water until it is slacked, and of about the consistency of thin cream; the lime settles and leaves tbe pure and clear lime water at the top A goblet of cow’s milk may have six or eight teaspoonfuls of lime water added with good effect. Great care should be taken not to'get the lime water too Strong; pour off without disturbing the precipitated lime. Sickness of the stomach is promptly relieved by drinking a teacupful of warm water with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it. If it brings the offending matter up all the better.

Chewing Gum.

It is a fact of some consequence to dealers in certain goods that the chew-ing-gum season begins with school. There is some demand dnring the summer, but boys and girls generally have other means of diversion and recreation; but when the school-room door opens and the year’s toil begins there is something necessary in study hours. Taffy and other candies leave marks on' fingers and faces, but the hardy gum can be laid away snugly in the corner of the desk, mouth or pocket, and reproduced whenever the pedagogue has his back turned. Very little pure spruce gum is in the market. Packages are received that look like pure gum at first sight, but the lumps are supposed to be forined by the fingers after a little gum, resin and other things have been added. If a dealer is in doubt about the genuineness of this spruce gum, he applies to a Canadian, who can tell at onoe. It must not be inferred from this that the regular diet of the Canadian is spruce KNo; he gets something more on lays occasionally. The amount of chewing gum manufactured is enormous. There is a factory in this city. The gam sold by confectioners is chiefly paraffine wax. Spruce gum is 50 cents a pound for the best in Maine, hence the use of cheaper things gives profit. The gum-makers follow the toy seasons in the form of chewing-gum—that is to say, when tops are the toys gum is in the shape of tops, at other seasons other forms attract pennies. Chewing-gum may seem insignificant as a trade commodity, but it is not. There are large houses in the country engaged solely in the,preparation of chewing gum.— Providence Journal. Ivory white is in such great vogue that satin dresses of this shade are nb longer confined to full-drCss entertainments, but are imported for visiting costumes.