Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1885 — Page 7

THE LEGISLATURE’S WORK.

The Important 11*11* Defeated and the '.[ 4 New Enacted. [lndianapolis Journal. 1 During the regular and special sessions of the Legislature there were H4B bills introduced, and of this number 150 were passed. There were only two acts vetoed by the Governor—the militia bill and Senator L. M. Campbell’s bill providing that persons having claims against the might bring suit in the Supreme Court Both measures were vetoed by the Governor for the reason that he believed they contained unconstitutional provision?. Among the important bills which were defeated were the act creating on Appellate Court; Mr. Ponlke’s bill requiring that the efforts of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics should be taught in the public schools; Mr. McMullen s, requiring foreign fire insurance companies to pay losses within sixty days; several bills reducing the emoluments of the Supreme, Court Reporter: Mr. Mosier’s ana Mr. Best’s fee and salary bills; Mr. Lindsay’s, exempting homesteads and personal property from execution; Mr. Jameson’s, regulating the business of banking; Mr. Engle’s, prohibiting the giving of passes by railroads to judicial and legislative officers; Mr. Sayre’s, reducing the number of members o: the Legislature; Mr. Foulke’B, relating to a State civil service system; Mr. Foulke’s, removing the legal disabilities of married women; Mr. Bailey’s, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine. The joint resolutions for the amendment of the Constitution which were adopted were Representative Krueger’s, fixing the terms of county officers at four years, and making them ineligible to re-election; and the resolution striking from the constitution the word “white” wherever it appears. The bills enacted and signed by the Governor number 148, and are as follows: Appropriates from the general fund for the salaries and expenses of State officers and deputies, Supreme Coiut Judges and officers, circuit judges, prosecuting attorneys, executive and administrative departments, the various State institutions, the payment of interest on bonds, etc.,aud for the erection of tablets to the memory of Indiana soldiers who fell at Gettysburg. Providing that In cities of less than 10,000 inhabitants the county auditor and treasurer shall levy and collect the city taxes, and turn them over to the proper city officers. Regulating the practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics, and providing for the issuing of licenses to practice by the county clerkLegalizing certain records in the offices of comity recorders. Appropriating $2,500 to pay on lightning-rod claim of David R. Munson. Amending an act creating and defining the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Fortyseventh judicial circuits, and fixing the length of term and time of bolding the courts therein, and providing for the appointment of a judge of the Forty-seventn circuit; for the appointment' of prosecuting attorneys for- the Twenty-first and Twenty-second circuits, and declaring an emergency. Providing a means of keeping in repair certain gravel roads, pursuant to an act of March 8, 1865. Amending section 2455 of the Revised Stantes of 1881, providing that appeal bond shall be filed in less than ten days after the decision is mu die, unless the court, for good cause shown, shall direct it to be filed within one year. Relieving Calvin J. Jackson, of Hancock County, who lost $1,990,70 State money by the failure of the Indiana Braking Company. Distributing undistributed money in the Treasury of the town of Clinton, Vermillion County. Amending section 318 of the statutes of 1881, so that in certain civil oases where the defendant cannot be reached, a notioe of the date and nature of soit shall be published in a newspaper of .general escalation. Concerning gravel and macadamized roads. Incorporating the town of Washington, Wayne County. ■ Relieving Jesse A. Avery, Cornelius B. Wodsworth, Wm. B. Flick, Wm. H. Speer, Robert N. Harding, Israel J. Connarroe, Joseph L. Hunton, Thomas W. Janeway, Chris Grube, and Harvey R. Mathews, Trustees of the several townships of Marion County, of the responsibility for various sums of township money lost by the failure of banks. Concerning the election, compensation, and duties of the Attorney General of the State. Appropriating SIO,OOO for the relief of Mrs. Sarah J. May. ~—-y- -^--- ' ■; ... Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Laconia, Harrison County. Firing the time for holding court In the Tenth judicial circuit. Amending section 3333 ,of the Revised Statutes of 1881, concerning the incorporation of towns. Legalizing certain assessments for the construction of che Blufftonand Bedford and Bluffton and Warren gravel roads. Legalizing elections and official acts of the Board of Trustees of the town of Rockport. Legalizing the incorporation and elections bf the town of Owensvllle, Gibson County. Appropriating $60,000 to pay the expenses of the extra session of the present Legislature. Amending section 2108 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, so as to outlaw the English sparrow. Reorganizing the Soldiers’ Orphans' Home and Asylum lor Feeble-minded Chi dren, and providing that three trustees, one of them a woman and the others honorably discharged Union soldiers, shall be appointed by the Governor as a beard of management .Legalizing cont acts and proceedings of the Board of Trustees ol the town of Brownstown. Legalizing acts of the town of Cannelton. Regulating the term of office of county commissioners. Requiring the full monthly payment of employes engaged In manual or mechanical labor, and making the claims of snch employes preXorrftfl yftnf nwßr —r~~~* —- ——— ' . ~, Authorizing the appointment of short-hand reporters for courts of record In counties with 10,000 or more Inhabitants, and fixing the compensation at not more than $5 for each day actually employed. Prohibiting tawtbling on fair grounds. Prohibiting Sunday base-ball playing where any tee is charged, and prescribing a fine of not more than $25 for Violation. Prohibiting forced contributions of money or property from employes by corporations or their officers. ~ Amending sections 1, 2 and 3 of an act entitled “An act to create the Forty-third judicial district, and to provide for holding terms of court in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Forty-third circuits.” Authorizing county commissioners to make suitable provietan from the county treasury for the education of iiaupt r children. Defining the Tenth, Twelfth and'Forty-ninth judicial districts, fixing the times and terms of courts and providing for the appointment of a judge and two prosecuting attorneys. Levying a tax and authorizing a loan of $500,000 for the completion of the new State House. Legalizing the incorporation and acts' of the town of Ligotiier, Noble County. Lega izing certain acts of the Common Council of Lawrenpoburg. Permitting amendment of pleadings before justices' courts, before or daring trial; new proof will not thereby be required by the opposing party. Appropriating $465 to pay the claim of John D. Works, Gustave Husthsleiner, and the heirs . of George B. Bteeth. Deflntafc the Twenty-fifth judicial circuit, creating the Forty-sixth, fixing time of courts and provftlfng for the appointment of a judge for the Forty-sixth, and a prosecuting attorney for the Twenty-fifth. Legalizing certain sale* of real estate by commissioners m proceedings by an executor or an administrator to sell each real estate. Authorizing a temporary 1 loap of $600,000 and making provision lor funding the outstanding loan at a lower rate of interest. Abolishing offio-'s of city treasurer and city assessor in cities of over 70,000 people, and providing for the discharge of their daties by the county treasurer and township assessor, respectively. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Alamo. Montgomery County, Legalizing the incorporation of the town of New Haven, Allen County. « Providing far the incorporation of fish ladders, defining misdemeanors and providing penalties. Making the State Board of Health consist of five members Instead of fonr, and providing for the election of a Secretary of the Board, who shall serve two years. „ Legalizing the construction of the Daniel Heath free gravel road. i Authorizing municipal corporations to purchase and hold real estate for sanitary pnroosqs, and legalizing purchases heretofore made. 4 Fixing time of holding courts iiyThirty-fonrth Judicial Circuit and repealing laws in oonfilct therewith. Amending section 5306 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, so -that «Haims not exoeeding SSO for work performed si any time within the previous six months, by laboring men or mechanics, shall be treated as preferred debts against any corporation or person falling, assie&ing qr having his bpafoenw suspended by creditors.« » Prohibiting a tax levy of more than 39 cents

■ \T " ~~ on the hundred dollars in connties having a voting population of more than 25,000. Prohibiting the buying and selling of votes, and prescribing penalties of disfranchisement and ineligibility to. office. To reapportion the Congressional districts. Fixing the time of holding circuit courts In the Fourth jndical oironit. Concerning the bnilding of bridges across boundary streams between counties. Appropriating SBO,OOO to the Indiana Uni? versity. f Reapportioning the State for legislative purposes. Proposing an amendment to Section -2 of the Constitution, so that no county officer except surveyor shall be eligible to are-election for the term of office immediately succeeding a term already served by him. Authorizing county commissioners in certain cases to construct free turnpikes instead of fr>;e bridges built, andauthorizing boards to pay for bridges within tire corporate limits of towns and cities. Preventing the spread of Canadian thistles. Providing for the reading in open court.of the full record of each day’s proceedings in the circuit courts. Fixing time of holding court in the Thirtyfifth jndical circuit Validating acknowledgments taken before officers whose commissions had theretofore expired. Extending for thirty years mining corporations existing before the State Constitution took effect. Legalizing continuances of terms of courts heretofore and after this time, beyond the expiration of the time fixed by law, where trials may be in nrogress at- the time of such expiration. Giving powers concerning libraries in certain cities, formerly held by town trustees, to common councils, after such towns may have become cities. Legalizing certain acts of the Brown county commissioners. Fixing time of holding and length of terms of courts in Twenty-fifth, Twenty-eighth, Fortysixth, and Second judicial circuits. Legal zing certain sales of real estate made without appraisements by majority votes of common councils of Incorporated cities. Appropriating $600,000 for the oompletion of the three new asylums for the insane. Creating the Forty-eighth judicial circuit and fixing the time of holding courts in the Twentysixth, Twenty-eighth, and Forty-sixth clrcu ts. Granting certain rights and franchises to the Union Railway Company of Indianapolis. Concerning drainage, repealing certain laws, prohibiting the obstruction of drains, etc. Increasing the bond of the State Treasurer to $700,000. Appropriating $125,000 to defray the expenses of the regular session of the General Assembly. Appropriating $3,000 to repair that portion of the Asylum for the Insane damaged by fire. Prohibiting aliens from holding titles to real estate in Indiana. . Providing for the removal of obstructions from highways. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Bourbon, Mashall county. Fixing the time of bolding courts in the Thir-ty-sixth judicial circuit. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Ambia, Benton county. Appropriating $3,900 to maintain the Indiana exhibit at New Orleans. Legalizing the Incorporation of the Union Loan and Savings Company of Marion county. Authorizing the levying of a township tax of 1 per cent, to support libraries. a— Changing the t me of holding courts in the Forty-third, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth judicial circuits. Legalizing acts of notaries public whose commissions had expired. Appropriating $25,901.64 to pay W. B. Burford for public printing. Appropriating $1,013 for the payment of a claim of Carlon <fe Hollenoeok. Legalizing the appointment and acts of trustees in certain eases. Appropriating $40,000 to Purdue University for the years 1813 and 1884. Amending the act incorporation the town of Vermont, Jennings county. ' Appropriating $6,800 for the erection of a new building at the Reform School lor Boys. Regulating the business of building, loan fund, and savings associations. Providing means for securing the health and safety of persons employed in coal mines, prescribing penalties for violations, and repealing all contacting laws. Empowering voluntary associations incorporated under the laws of the State for establishing homes for aged females, to receive into snch homes aged men also. Providing that Interest on county bonds may be paid annually or semi-annually. Prohibiting the importation of foreign contract labor. Amending the act providing for the organization and perpetuity of voluntary associations. Prohibiting discriminations J>y telephone companies. Authorizing school trustees to pay out of the special school fnnd money for .real estate purchased for a public library. Appropriating $8,184.69 to reimburse the city of Indianapolis on account of money expended in the construction of the Reformatory sewer. Appropriating $16,990.71 for the payment of certain claims of members of the Indiana Legion; —.- —■-- Authorizing boards of county commissioners to accept gravel roads and maintain the same. Amending the law providing tor the taxation and registration of dogs. Amending section 32 of the election contest law, so as to give the judges the right to examine ballots after the same have been read and announced by the inspectors. Providing a contingent fund of $2,000 per month to be disbursed by the Superintendent of the Hospital for the Insane. Requiring plats Of new additions to cities or Incorporated towns to be submitted to oonncil or trustees before being recorded. Authorizing owners of land separated by railroads to construct wagon and drive ways over snch railroads; also^, releasing railroads from liability for stock filled on account of snch driveways. Legalizing a deed for certain land in Randolph county made by Aqmlla Jones, as Treasurer of the State to William M. Lock. Authorizing the county treasurer, auditor and recorder jointly to accept offers of compromise touching delinquent lands in certain cases, by consent of the Auditor of State. Legalizing the organization of the ZionsviUe and Pike Township Gravel-road Company. Allowing county commissioners of different counties to unite in the purchase of grounds and buildings for an orphans' horfie. Providing that any person may appeal from a decision of county commisioners, in claims against connties, to the circuit or superior courts.Authorizing universities and colleges to acquire, hold and dispose of real estate. Regulating weights and measures. Giving to all people, without regard to race or previous condition, the advantages of restaurants, urns, eating-houses, barber-shops, and all places of public accommodation and amusement, and providing penalties for violation. Authorizing commissioners of counties with uncompleted court-houses to issue bonds to raise funds for their completion. Fixing the time for holding court In the Twenty-fifth judicial circuit. Authorizing the oounclls of cities and boards of trustees otn incorporated towns to pass and enforce ordinances requiring contractors to receipt estimate records within thirty days after payment of street improvement claims. Appropriating sl,uoo to pay the indebtedness of the State to the estate of Daniel Hough. Requiring foreign insurance comnanies operating in the State to have a paid-up capital of $250,000, of which SIOO,OOO must be invested in stocks created under the laws of the United States, making the Auditor of State the attorney of the State on the State’s dealing with such companies, empowering, him at any time to examine their acoounts, aod defining the daties of agents of such companies. Creating and defining the Twenty-first, Twen-ty-second and Forty-seventh Judicial Circuits, fixing the length of terms and times of holding courts therein, and providing for the appointment of a Judge for the Forty-seventh and a Prosecuting Attorney for the Twenty-second. Prohibiting the employment of children under 12 years of age In mines and manufaciorries. Appropriating $406.50 to pay the claim of Patrick Kirkland. Amending an act concerning proceedings In civil cases se as to exempt the State officers and Prosecuting Attorneys from liability for costs in State cases. Empowering County Commissioners 1» appropriate money ior the erection of soldiers’ monuments. To amend an act authorizing the formation of companies for the detection of horse-thieves. Providing for the printing of reports from institutions biennially. Providing for the election and qualification of Jnstioes of the Peace. Appropriating $54,000 to pay John Martin for brick work at the Insane Hospital. ' Concerning contracts made by order of the common councils of cities for the improvement of streets and alleys. Authorizing the Governor to issue to Frank Coffern a patent for certain railroad land. To amend an act relating to opening streets and alleys'and for improving water-conrses. Concerning the relocation.of county seats. ~ To amend an act providing for the appraisement and purchase And conversion of toll roads into free roads." Regulating the reports on State school revenue by county treasurers. To amend an act concerning apportionment of decedents’ estates. For the relief of Lewis & Colder. To empower the trustee of Cool Spring township, in LaPorte county, to enter satisfaction la

favor of said township against Henry Keiferand Robert Cumin. . . j ‘Allowing mechanics’ liens on railroads and bridges. Making appropriations for the State government and its institutions. To regulate the rental of telephones. To amend an act concerning highways and the supervision thereof. „ ' <. For the relief of commissioners of drainage ana contractors thereof, „ T Requiring railroad corporations and other persons controlling railroads to fence their right of way and railroad track. To enroll the late soldiers, their widows and orphans, residing in the State of Indiana.

A. Ward and Tom Pepper.

The Oakland Times thus refers to a recent exchange of compliments between two Elko, Nevada, editors: “Thomas Pepper appears to have been the peerless prevaricator of Nevada, from whom all liars in that state ore measured up and down, like heights and depths are measured from the sea level, for we observe that when one Nevadan wishes to refer to the aphasiatic merits of a contemporary he speaks of him as a “bigger liar than Tom Pepper.” Tom Pepper was a California production, though he was for a time on the Comstock. While here he led a Bohe mian life, doing odd jobs for the several papers then published in this city. He was here at the time of Artemus Ward’s visit. Tom heard that Artemus had arrived and was stopping at the International hotel. In breathless haste he rashed away to interview the great humorist. He ran at once to Ward’s room, and, knocking, was instantly admitted. “Artemus Ward, I believe?" Artemus signified that the guess was a good one. #'l am delighted to meet you,” cried Tom —“delighted to meet you, sir.” “ And I have the pleasure of seeing ? and the smiling Ward looked a whole line of interrogation points. “I am—l am—that is, my name is ” gasped Tom. “My name is—well, just waits moment till I think,” and Tom ran out of the room and closed the door behind him, leaving Artemus standing in the middle of the floor. After a few moments in the hall Tom rushed back toward the astonished Ward with extended hand and glowing face, crying: “Pepper, Pepper, sir! I’m Mr. Pepper—Tom Pepper—betyer known as Lying Tom Pepper.” Hingston, Ward’s agent, was out at the moment. Thinking he had an insane man to deal with, Artemus smiled the most cheerful smile then at his command. He declared he had often heard of Mr. Pepper and was delighted to meet him. At the moment he was about to change his clothes; would Mr. Pepper be kind enough to withdraw and call around again in half an hour? Mr. * Pepper would and did. When Mr. Hingston came in Artemus had a fearful story to tell about hi 3 adventure with a crazy man. Afterward, when Ward came to know that a sense of his greatness as a humorist had so overcome poor Tom as to cause him to forget his own name, the genial lecturer declared it was the greatest compliment that had ever been paid him.— Virginia City ( Nev.) Enterprise.

Capital Punishment and Food Adulteration.

Mr. Bright once observed that adulteration was but another form of competition. That sort of competition would seem not to have been appreciated in the middle ages, in Germany, at least, if we may judge from the fate which was held in reserve for adulterators at Nuremburg. The town counsel of that delightful old city is publishing its archives, which throw a good deal of new light upon the manners and habits of the burghers of Albert Gurer’s town, and particularly upon its penal code. For a venial act of adulteration two grocers and a woman were buried alive under the gallows. Two tavern keepers, convicted of having “baptized” their wine, were condemned to a similar fate; but by “great and special grace” they were let off with tne loss of their ears. Clearly, competition, in the retail trade at all events, was not popular in Nuremburg. This matter of adulteration is complicated in these days by the liking of some purchasers for falsified goods. Thus many Eastern peoples prefer their calico heavily sized; and sized, too, in a fashion which kills the cotton operatives of Bochdale and other places where goods for the Oriental markets are prepared.— St. James Gazette.

An Embarrassed Inventor.

Among the regular passengers on a certain Boston railroad is a somewhat celebrated chemist, who has lately compounded a mixture for the cure of cholera. The other evening he was in conversation with the conductor regarding his discovery, and being very much interested in its wonderful medicinal properties, he raised his voice so as to attract the attention of all the passengers in the car. “Why, ” said he, “my medicine will knock the cholera higher than a burnt boot. I wish it wound come here, and I wound show you how quick I would conquer it and make my fortune besides.” “What’s the matter with your going out there where it is and wrestling with it?” blandly suggested the genial conductor. “Why, I might catch it myself,” innocently replied the would-be cholera exterminator, and the roars of laughter that filled the car at that moment so comfused the worthy inventor as to cause his sudden retirement to the smoking car.—Boston Herald.

His Leg.

Recently a man had a leg amputated in a Washington hospital* and, upon visiting the capital some months afterward, discovered the member preserv ed in alcohol. He was shocked, and demanded it that he might bury it. The demand was refused,but upon bringing suit in replevin the case was decided in his favor, and he was given possession of his own leg. A theatrical adyertisment in an old London newspaper reads thus: “This night will be enacted Shakespeare’s powerfulle tragedie ‘Henry the Eighths. ’ During the tragedie the candles will be snuffed betwen the acts.” ■ W -iMan is always popping at woman with the blowgun of his sarcasm,, but it comes her innings when she gets the bonnet and he is alone with the bill. A coucu of the lighest down may support a heart as heavy as home-made bread. , > . ' i——»*t~‘

THE CATTLE KINGS MUST GO

Capt. Couch Has a Long Interview With Secretary of the Into- 1 rior Lamar.. He Is Told that Ail Unlawful Intruders In Oklahoma Will Be > Ejected. Capt. Conch, with his counsel, Sidney Clarke, visited Washington last week, and had an interview with Secretary Lamar. The substance of the interview was as follows: Capt Conch gave a history of the Oklahoma question, and the view which he and the Western people generally take of it The Secretary took the view that; the clause in the treaty Setting this land aside for freedmen and friendly Indians created a trust which made it incumbent upon the Government to preserve it in that, status until such time as Congress, m gfit make another disposition of it This poult was discussed at length. The decisions of the coarts for and against this position were quoted. Capt. Conch and Mr.

CAPT. W. L. COUCH.

Clarke, understand from what Lamar said on this point that the position of the administration is that it is not subject to immediate settlement under the land laws. The question of the occupancy of Oklahoma by the cattlemen was then raised. Capt. Conch informed the Secretary of the Ideation of the ranches, the amount of land occupied, and the names of the persons occupying jt He also told Mr. Lamar that the cattlemen Wire allowed to pass b.v*the military on a pass from any of the cattle kings, and that anybody connected with the cattle companies was allowed to pass in and out of the Territory without question. Capt. Couch said that the settlers thought that if they were to be excluded because the administration took the view that these /lands were not open to settlenfent, it was right and just that the cattlemen. who are not only upbn the Oklahoma lands, hat are occupying the surrounding Indian country under illegal leases, should also be ejected. Mr. Lamar replied that they would be ejected; that all the cattle syndicates would be ejected. He said: “I agree with you on that, gentlemen. ” He also affirmed that his feelings were all with the settlers, but that en this one point of law as to the lands being open to settlement now he did not agree with them. As to the question of the appointment of a commission to negotiate with the Indians, the Secretary said that the administration wonld take early action upon it, He said, “Gentlemen, you may consider the administration a little slow, but we intend to meet all these questions, and I think we shall meet them in a way which will he generally satisfactory to your people.”

RUSSO-BRITISH WAR QUESTION.

The statement of Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons shows that the question ofwar between England and Russia hangs upon the accuracy of Gen. Komaroff s official report of his recent encountei with the Afghans. That the reader may have a clear understanding of the point at issue it is necessary to rdfer to the Russian statement In his dispatch to the Government Gen. Komaroff states that the 2-sth oi March as he approached Dashkapri he came upon an Afghan intrenchment, and to avoid a conflict stationed his forces three miles away from their position. The next day he commenced negotiations with the English officers who,Fere with the Afghans. The latter, finding that they were not attacked, daily drew nearer to the Russians, until the 2fith Gen. Komaroff notified them

GEN. KOMAEOFF.

to evacuate the left bank of the Kooshk, which they were occupying contrary to agreement. This they refused to do, upon the advice, as they averred, of the English officers. Gen. Komaroff then moved toward them, hoping that they wonld retire, but instead of that they opened fire on him and compelled him to accept combat, the result of which is known. It is sufficient to say that the Afghans went back in a hurry. If this statement is correct the Russians were clearly in the right and were justified in driving the Afghans back; and it is on the correctness of this statement that the war question now hangs. The reports thus far received from the Engish and Russian officers are ' conflicting. In order to get at the facts from an official k source the English Government has telegraphed Gen, KomarofFs statement to Sir Peter Lumsden, with instructions to make his report as early as possible and to inform the Government as to the correctness of the Russian General’s statement. Pending the receipt of an answer, of course, no action wifi be taken. Don’t try to do too much., A Milwaukee mam undertook to make his wife leant to eat with her fork the other,4ay, and 'now he wears a beefsteak on his eye. The pathway of the reformer has always been a good deal like Jordan. ’ The last three Lord Chancellors of England have all been Sunday-school teachers. ~ Blessed is the bachelor pastor, for donation parties troubleth him not. A contented mind is better thwq money in a savings bank.

Union Soldiers and Office. The News of this city has a very unkind and nnjust criticism on the Grand Army of the Republic, the Union Veteran Association, and kindred army organizations. It inveighs against these associations because they ask a fair and proper recognition of the military services of their members in the matter of official patronage. A few years ago it was very properly conceded by all parties in the North that, other things being equal, the fact that a candidate for office had been a Union soldier was to be taken to his advantage over a candidate who had not been a soldier. This.was right and proper then, and it is right and proper now. The man who volunteered in the service of his country as a soldier had. and has, a superior claim to recognition at the hands of the people, in the bestowal of benefits, to the man who remained at home. The man who volunteered to serve his country at sl3 or sl6 a month, leaving behind him the comforts and qniet of home, encountering the perils of the march, the camp, and of battle, has certainly a superior claim to favor over the mm who sat by his fireside and read of these things in the daHy papers. Few, if any, men went into the army to make money. They entered the service from patriotic motives, and to them should be accorded all proper benefits the people have the power to grant as favors. The New# says: “ The generation twenty years ago took their lives in their hands and went to the front because it was duty, not because of what there was to be made out of it. But this demand of offices in recognition of what ‘we ’ have done, and because ‘we ’ did it, is a bid for the judgment that patriotism is beginning to have a market price attached to it.” It is true the men went into the army as a matter of patriotism, “or duty,” but the duty was alike to all, the man who went as to the man who did not go. Therefore the man who wept for the welfare of bis country has a superior claim to the man who did not go. But it is not true that they claim a price for their patriotism. They only ask the recognition that every man was willing to grant them at the time of their enlistment. It very ill becomes the man who remained at home in the r>eace and quiet of his fireside, or who, being too young to go, or who for any other reason did not go, to say that the soldier has no superior claim for official recognition on the country. The soldier has a superior claim, and it should be recognized by a'l men and by all parties. Those army associations are not party associations; hut if they were, why might they not be so in the North as they are in the South? No man in the South, or of the South, can get an office unless he was a Confederate soldier. The Southern man who was not only a secessionist, but a Confederate soldier as well, could not, since the war, have received the vote of the lords of the South. Service in the Confederate army has been a prerequisite for all candidates. The troth is, the soldiers of the Union have been self-denying in their demand for office. There has not been an election in the North since the war closed at which Federal soldiers have not voted for men who were not in the army. How times have changed since the close of the war! Mr. Lamar, the present Secretary of the Interior, who has the final decision of all questions relating to the granting of pensions to Union soldiers, was not only a Confederate soldier, but he resigned his place in tie Congress of the United Stales to become a Confederate officer; and he has,within the past few weeks, been not only the apologist for Jefferson Davis, bat his eulogist and champion. More than fifty Confederate brigadier-gen-erals were members of the last House of Representatives, and every member of the United States Senate from the States lately in rebellion was either in the rebel army or the rebel Congress. These are the men who, with the doughfaces of the North, make the laws for the loyal soldiers of the Nation, and who pass upon their pensions and the bills in which they have an interest. It ill becomes any man in the North, or of the North, to complain that Union soldiers hold their camp-fires, have their army organizations and their reunions. It is, the most natural thing in the world that they should have them. Has the time alretdy come when the Union soldier mast apologize for the part he took in the war?— Indianapolis Journal.

The Man Who Is Honored.

Col. L. Q. C. Lamar, of the late C. S. A., and present Secretary of the Interior of the United States, ordered the flag of the Interior Department to be displayed at halfmast, and the department and its bureaus, which includes the Bureau of Pensions, to be closed, because of the death of Jacob Thompson, once his predecessor in thejsame office. This is the same Jacob Thompson under whose mlg, ag Secretary of the Interior, several millions of the Indian trast fund bonds were stolen. This is the sime Jacob Thompson who left his place as Secretary of the Interior to enter the service o l the Southern Confederacy. This is the same Jacob Thompson who acted as the agent of the rebelions States in trying to organize a force in Canada to liberate the Confederate prisoners at Johnson’s Island. This is the same Jabob Thompson who tried to organize a parly of rebels and assassins in Canada to liberate the prisoners of war at Camp Morton, and then to assassinate Gov. Morion -and seize upon the United States Armory and supplies in the city of Indianapolis, and bum the city. This is the same Jacob Thompson who was part and parcel of tho conspiracy to spread smallpox in the cities of the North. This is the same Jacob Thompson who was part and parcel of the conspiracy to distribnte vellow-fever-infected rags into the hospitals and armies of the Union. And yet, Within twenty days after a Democratic President enters into the White House, a man of such infamous character is honored by having the one department of the Government having in especial charge the care of the Union soldiers disabled by war, and their widows and orphans, closed deference to his memory. If the Confederates can, within twenty days from the inauguration of their first President after the close of the war, so lionor such a man as .Jacob Thompson, what may not be done in a few short years of their rule? — Exchange. It has been discovered that Vice President Hendricks was obliged to use his utmost efforts to secure the nomination of his man as Postmaster at Indianapolis. It is even said that the victory was so dearly bought that Mr. Hendricks is now virtaally bankrupt in political influence. Democbath at Washington are more dissatisfied than ever. The dsappointed Bourbons call attention to the fact that Texas, which gave 132,000 majority to Cleveland, has received nothing, while Vermont, which never voted for a Democratic President,’ was awarded the first pick of the diplomatic appointments, and New York, which barely squeezed out a plurality of 1,000 for Cleveland, has captured the Secretaryships of the Treasury and' Navy, the Assistant Secretaryship pf the Treasury; the Turkish Mission, and the Solicitorship of the Treagary. . ■ . After Jane-30 a two-cent stamp will cany an ounce letter instead of a half-ounce.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

' The Lerialatnre adjourned tine die on Monday, April 13. In the Senate O. C. Smith was elected President pro tem., which may lead to Important results, aa the Lieutenant Governor proposes to reeirn and Gov. Gray la a candidate for Mr. Harrison's seat in the United States , Senate Senator louche Introduced » resolution expressing the Senate’s appreciation of the impartiality "'Sod" ability with which senator hnfns Magee bad discharged the duties Of President pro tens, of the body, and a supplemental resolution was offered by Senator Zimmerman, wishing Mr. Magee a safe and happy voyage to Stockholm, the place of his residence as Minister to Sweden and Norway. Both resolution* were unanimously adopted. The last hour of, the session was extremely animated. Mr. Magee introduced a resolution thanking the re; orters of the city papers for their fair and Impartial reports of legislative proceedings, Senator Smith, of Jennings County, speaking to a question of privilege, made a violent attack on Vi liam Fortune, of the Journal. designating him as a sneak, sconndrel, coward, and black me Her. Fortune sent in a note, which was read from the Clerk's desk, calling the Senator a liar, bat after a heated discussion a motion tc expel Mr. Fortune from the floor of the chamber was defeated. The vote was s tie, and the Lieutenant Governor decided by his vote against expulsion. In the House the concluding session was spent In allowing or refusing extra allowances to the employes. Resolutions of thanks to Bpeaker Jewett and the employes of the House wt re - adopted, the former by a unanimous riaihg vote.

Our Little Joe.

In a newsboys’ home a visitor observed a child’s high-chair standing in a corner of the dining-room. “Have yon a child here?” he asked the matron. “No. That is ,our little Joe’s,” she said. A sudden silence followed. Even the boys standing near checked their noise and skirmishing for a few minutes. “Who was Joe?” asked the Traitor. “A little fellow,” said the matron, “who came to ns when he was but six years old. He was a hump-back and a cripple, never having grown after he was five. He was a bright, pushing little fellow, and a verv affectionate child. He slept here anti took most of his meals here. That is’ his chair. I I gave it to him. The superintendent said I favored him. Well, I was fond of Joe. -—■■ ■■ “We have a savings bank into which the boys put their pennies or dimes every week. It gives them the habit of economy. Joe began saving when he first came to ns. He would bring his five or ten cents every Saturday, laughing. “ ‘I am saving up to have a home of my own when I am grown up,’ he would say. “He had neither father nor mother, nor any kinsfolk, and I don’t know what was the boy’s idea of a home of his own. He was very happy here—a sort of ruler among the other boys. Yet he went on saving, and always for that purpose. ’ “He ’was never a strong boy, and when he was sixteen a heavy cold he took went to his lnngs. It only needed a day or two to make an end of his poor little body. One day he said to me, just after the clergyman had been with him: “ ‘ That money I’ve saved it will be enough to pay the doctor and buy a coffin for me.’ “ ‘But, Joe,’l said, ‘how about the home of your own ? ’ “He did not answer me at first, and then he smiled, saying, ‘That’s alt right!’ and he held my hand tight. Til have it. That’s all right/ “The next day it was all over. We took Joe’s money and paid the doctor and bought him a coffin. It didn’t need a big one. The boys ciubbed together, giving ten cents each*, and bought him a lovely pillow of white roses, with ‘Our Joe’ upon it. Every boy got a tag of black on his arm to go to the funeral. He had his own home then, sir. But wherever he was, L think the roses pleased him.” She fell behind as we passed on and dusted little Joe’e chair with her apron, setting it reverently apart into a qniet corner.

Kentucky Did Not Want to Secede.

The people of Kentucky did not desire to secede, and they showed it every time they had a chance to express an opinion. They showed it at the election in the summer of 1860, at the Presidential election in 1860, at the Congressional election in Hay, 1861, by a majority of over 64,000; they showed it at the legislative election in August, 1861, when the Union men were put in by an overwhelming mar jority in the Legislature; they showed it decisively by furnishing nearly 80,000 soldiers to support the Union cause, and they showed it, finally, and to the disgust of the Confederate generals arid authorities, when they declined to rally to the Confederate standard when Johnston came to Bowling Green and Buckner to Green Biver; and again when Bragg brought his forces within sight of Louisville and Cincinnati. Senator Blackburn has made the claim that Kentucky furnished 47,000 soldiers to the Confederate cause, and Mr. Shaler, in his recent history, pats the number at 40,000. We believe that neither or them can give an anthoritj to support his estimate. Twenty-five thousand, to our mind, is a liberal figure at which to put the number of Confederate soldiers furnished by Kentucky, Although up to September, 1861, the facilities for enlisting in the Confederate service in Kentucky were as great as for enlisting in the Union service, although a good part of the State was in the possession of the Confederates from September, 1861, np to February, r 1862, and although in the summer and fall of 1862 they had every facility for securing Kentucky recruits. — Louisville Commercial. Life, on this plsnet, according to a treatise brought out by Mr. Scribner, exSecretary of State, New York, began in the polar regions. ■ ' Yorxo man, never call another a “liar" if he is not. It is unjust to apply the term to him, and if he is he knows it himself. He who makes a child happy receives an encore from the angels in the gallery. , A mi proser is more endurable than a dull joker.— Burks. \ That grief is most sincere .which shuns observation- * * *- / .~. • ... ...