Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — Page 7

..The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ' W. E. MARSHALL, - - Pubushkl

Illcstrating tho lose way in which the word billion (in England a million millions) is used, Sir Henry Bessemer reckons that a billion seconds have not elapsed since the world began, as they would reckon 31,678 years, seventeen jdayA, twenty-two hours, forty-five min- ■ utes, five seconds. A chain of a billion would pass 736 timea around the globe. Charles I. Betts,'of Cleveland, has gone insane over financial losses. He married a lady with §500,003, but this did not satisfy him. He went into grain gambling and lost all he had, his wife remonstrating in vain, and finally leaving him in order to save the remnant of her fortune. The love of money continues to be the root of a good deal of evil. Mr. Butts, as a day laborer, content with enough, would probably be entirely sane and happy. In the AfedzcaZ Press Dr. Spanton tells of a young man who attended the Salvation Army meetings in order to be cured of heart disease. Eight or ten of the “soldiers”,placed their hands upon his head, and the ‘‘major” talked earnestly with him apd crossed his forehead with oil. Eo’was asked if he did not feel healed, and replied in the negative. The process Was repeated, and the bystanders shouted to him that he Was healed. But he was still obliged to deny the fact, and was at last ignominiously dismissed with the observation from the major: “You don’t understand faith.” ■ t < r ?. . One of the keenest things ever said on the bench is attributed to Judge Walton. While holding a term of the Supreme Court at Augusta, Georgia, he sentenced a man to seven years in prison for a grave crime. The respondent’s counsel asked for a mitigation of the sentence on the ground that the prisoner’s health was very poor. “Your Honor,” said he, “I am satisfied that my client cannot live out half that term, and I beg es you to change the sentence.” “Well, under the circumstances,” said the Judge, “I will change the sentence. I will make it for life, instead of seven years.” It is needless to add that the respondent chose to abide by the original sentence, which the Judge permitted him to elect. Spooner, the new Wisconsin Senator, is a little man and has lots of trouble. He was lately introduced to a gentleman in Washington who asked him if he was a relative of the Senator of the same name., The friend explained that the Colonel and the" Senator were identical. The gentleman looked at Spooner in a half-incredulous sort of way, as if sizing him up and judging him by the standard of a tape-line. He at the same time begged his pardon in a tdne that poorly concealed his surprise. The newly-fledged statesman could stand it no longer, and exclaimed with some petulance: “Great Scott! do you suppose a man has got to be seventeen feet high to be a United States Senator?” Lord Walsingham is about to try, on his Norfolk estates, a new method of preserving game. He has come to the conclusion that in these depressed times agricultural labor needs some sort of subsidy, direct or indirect. He is also of the opinion that laborers make capital underkeepers, and he has accordingly announced his intention of Betting aside a shilling for every. partridge shot on his estates. The fund thus created will be deducted from the cottage rent account, and the rent of the cottages will be proportionately diminished, each tenant sharing in the benefit according to the amount of his rental. During the last nine years there has been on Lord Walsingham’s estate an average bag of 1,900 partridges, which would give to each of his tenants a yearly reduction of lls6d; (While if a good year came, and 3,000 birds were killed, a cottager paying an annual rental of £3 5p would be entitled to a lump reduction of 19s. His Lordship expresses his hope that this offer will induce his tenants “to do all in their power to protect the nests of partridges during the breeding season.” General Gordon’s habit of life was simple in the extreme. He mixed little in society, and dinner parties he especially abhorred. If a friend invited him to dine, he would remark that he had a dinner at home, and that his would-be host had better ask somebody who had none. It is no secret, however, that Gordon’s meals were very often anything but appetizing. A story is told of a friend of his who found him sitting down to a stale loaf and a pot of tea. On a remark being made as to the dryness of the bread Gorden crammed it into a slop basin and poured all the tea over it with tHe remark that it would soon be ready to eat, and that in half an 'hour it would not matter what he had eaten. Gordon’s principal delight consisted in the rescue of street Arabs and other equally neglected children, scores of whom he literally “picked out of the gutter,” and placed in the way of earning an honest living. His care for these lads was unceasing. He would take them to his house, cleanse them,dothe them, and

perhaps keep them for weeks, until a | suitable situation could be found for ! them. Curiously enough he had an ob- , jection to sending these boys into the | army, and much preferred their going , indeed, he paid premiums for their apprenticeship to merchant vessels or fishing-smacks, and arranged such terms as insured their being able to get a livelihood at an early date. A Chicago oculist has made a report to the Board of Education of that city in which he asserts that-out of 618 examinations made of the eyes of pupils in the NortC Division High School he found only 128 eyes whose sight was perfect. Each pupil was examined separately and so wks each eye. The examination was based upon the test type, which scientific authorities calculate should be seen twenty feet by eyes in good condition. In the school where the pupils range in years from 11 to 20 he four thirty four per cent, chad normal eyes, thirty-one per cent, were farsighted (hypermatropic) an<l b twenty-two per cent, were nearsighted or myopic. He discovered that the positions which the pupils occupied durinc the hours of study had injuriously affected the condition of the eyes. This indicates, he claims, that to preserve the eyes of the children not only must a new system of instruction be introduced but the architecture of the schools must be changed. In the younger and lower classes he discovered a relatively smaller percentage Oi the different anomalies of refractions, showing that the schools are producing the difficulties of vision. In all the school rooms except one the proportion of light surface —glass area—to the floor surface was not twenty-five per cent. In room 5 the lighting surface was only twelve per cent.,while the best authorities claim that there should be a lighting surface of thirty per cent. Of the males examined six were color blind. The eyes of the females were more sensitive to colors.

One of the brightest as well as most active and influential Democrats in ‘Wisconsin, says a Washington telegram to the New York Tribune, is Gen. Edward S. Bragg, who recently spent a few days in Washington. He is a practical politician, and frankly confesses his contempt ior what he would call “professional civil-service reformers” and their methods. “I never think of the schoolmaster’s civilservice board,” said he, “without being reminded of an incident that happened during the war. I had come up from Fortress Monroe on a short leave of absence, I arrived late in the evening, and was preparing to enjoy the unusual luxury of sleeping in a comfortable bed in a warm room, when I heard a rap at my door, and Col. Bdal—who had been lieutenant governor ’of Wisconsinentered. He was born and raised in Maryland, and his conversation and manners showed his Southern birth and breeding. He was loyal to the core and brave as a lion, but he had not been fortunate, and when he came to see me, I suppose he was 'dead broke’ and knew that I had some money, or I would not be in Washington. After he had been seated a very short time he asked: ‘General, may I touch your bell?’ ‘Certainly,’ said L The ‘touch’ brought brandy and water, and after he had ‘touched the bell’ three or four times, the governor rose, straightened himself, tilted his hat back, thrust his thumbs into the armholes of his waistcoat, cleared his voice, and began: ‘General, I have been seeking a commission as colonel in one of the negro regiments about to be organized in Florida, and I have been before this blank board for examination? ‘Well,’ said I, ‘I suppose you got through? ‘Got through! Got through! Oh, yes, I got through, sir; no doubt about that, sir. You see, sir, old Casey is president of the board—Silas Casey, you know. sir. Why, I knew Casey long before he was as big a man as he seems to think he is now. Well, sir, I went before his blank board, sir. There he and the rest of them sat looking as wise as owls. Well, General, what kind of a blank fool question do you suppose that fellow Casey fired at me ? Why, sir, he asked me to do a’ sum in decimal fractions. I just raised my spectacles, and took a good look at him and his board, and then said: ‘General, if you expect me to put down the rebellion with decimal fractions you are blankedly mistaken,’ and I took my hat and bowed myself out, sir. Oh, yes; I got through? ”

A Perverted Life.

There is a man in Florida that we never pass without a sigh of regret. This man was the finest pulpit orator of the South. His tongue dropped diamonds, and his thoughts were peart No congregation ever tired of his elo-. quence. He held attention breathless, and thousands, hung upon his words. If he had followed one good purpose with unflagging zeal through all his life; if he had kept his eye single and his heart set in One direction; if to alibis radiant gifts had been added stable purpose and sincere consistency, he might have been among the. most famous and the most useful men of all his 4ime. But he followed all things, he sought to give God aqd Mamou equal service; he sought to sail on every sea, and* his melancholly shipwreck points the solemn moral of his plan of life. The story of this man is more eloquent of warning than the best sermon that he ever preached.— Jacksonville {Fla.) Herald.

THE CENTIPEDE’S BITE.

Two Rather Doubtful Stories from Personal Experience. A few days ago Lucien Alexander received, from a friend in Arkansas, a specimen of th»t venomous animal, the centipede. Mr. Alexander placed the articulate in a jar of alcohol and lifts it on exhibition at his store. Almost everyone who ha? been attracted by it has related remarkable incidents about its family. The centipede is known to, be one of the most poisonous reptiles in existence. It is claimed that its sting is sure death, and an antidote for its poison is among the undiscovered wonders of the world. One of these stories related <sf this species is that Of au ex-soldier. He says that when among the Ozark mouittains a companion felt one of them crawling up his leg. He knew its sting was sudden and fatal, but the varmint was on him. What must he do to be saved was the question. He knew it Would be impossible to shake it off, because ut the least disturbance it would plant its fangs into his flesh. He felt it crawling, and as it came higher and higher on his limb the perspiration boiled from every pore of his body. Every moment was one of agony, and he began to realize that his life hung on a slender thread. Finally an idea suggested itself. He dealt the centipede aterrific blow, killing it; but of course at the first touch its fangs were inserted in his flesh. Almost instantly he disrobed, and with a common pocket-knife made an incision around the affected part and removed about a pound of flesh. This was twenty years ago,and the man carries an ugly scar to this day; but to that scar he owes his life. Another story, more remarkable, is briefly told. A company of emigrants had camped in New Mexico, and one night one of the party, who was sleeping on the ground, was awakened by a peculiar sensation on his toes. He looked and saw a monstrous centipede crawling across his foot. Only a few feet from him was the camp-fire, and he could see every fiber of the reptile. Knowing its peculiarities and the effect bf its sting, ho, too, was in a fever of excitement. Afraid to move a muscle, he dared not attempt to shak6 it off After a second’s pause he reached under his head, got his pistol, and, taking deliberate aim, fired. It was a lifesaving shot for th? man; the centipede divided and dropped in two parts on .either side of his foot. But here comes the most remarkable part of the story. Within an hour after the shot was fired the men heArd a terrible groaning from one of their mules picketed only a few yards away. They went to them and found one of them with his left fore leg swollen to an enormous size. The swelling increased, as did the agony and groans of the brute, until it died in about thirty minutes thereafter. An examination was made, and it was discovered that the bullet which had severed the centipede had entered the mule's foot just above the hoof, and inoculated it with the poison fiomthe reptile. <■ The person who related the above -incident bears a splendid reputation for truth and veracity, and he emphasized that it was a true story, but his audience, nevertheless, gave him a look of suspicion. “It may be true,” said one, “but I’ll be blamed if I believe it.”—Louis v tile Courier Journal.

The Cashier Who Had No Emotion.

On a suburban theater train the other night a little party were talking of pathetic scenes upon the stage and how they were variously affected by them. “For my part,” said a dapper young man, “I never yet saw anything on the stage that could moisten my eyes. I leave the crying to little 'boys and women?’ “Oh, you do, do you?” replied a bluff old gentleman, an office!’ di one of the railroads; “every time I hear a young man talk as you do I feel like telling a little incident that once came under my notice jn New York City. A party of us sat in a box, ‘Hazel Kirke’ was the ‘play. None of us had ever seen it. I shed a tear or two quietly and unobserved, but rough old Gen. Mcßae cried like a baby. He was president of the Georgie railroad then, and in New York on business. He was a regular martinet in his profession, stern and unrelenting. He was an old bach- ■ elor, too, and so far as is knowmnever had tender feeling toward wonmn or kin. He had lived a life solitary and absolutely unsentimental We were allqsurprised to see such emotion in such a man, but none of us said anything except young George ~ of Atlanta. He laughed at the old General’s weakness. “ ‘Can you witness such a scene as that with dry eyes?’ inquired the General with all his sternness of manner and speech. “ ‘Why, of course I can. I could laugh at it even as I laugh at you? “ ‘See here, George ——said Gen. Mcßae, with great earnestness, ‘you are a cashier of a bank in Atlanta. In that bank my company has many thousands of dollars deposited. Immediately upon my return home every dollar of our deposits shall be withdrawn. You may be'an honest man, but Ido not feel safe with our money in an institution where one of the responsible officers talks as you talk to-night? “Upon his return to Atlanta the General did as he promised. And luckily, too, for in less than six months the bank was minted by 1, a heavy embezzlement by its cashier.”— Chicago Herald. -

She Didn’t Wear a Jersey.

“Don’t your wife wear a jersey ?” blandly asked the smooth-tongued dry goods clerk of Farmer Furrow, who was making a few purchases for his better-half “Now, look a-here, young feller,” said the old granger, with a look of mingled scorn and ferocity, "don’t yer be too fresh.* I may be a countryman, but I’ll be durfied if ITI take any guff from yer.” “Why, I didn't mean anything,” timidly retorted the clerk. “I merely asked if your wife wore a jersey.” “Well, sir, if that’s all yer want to know, I’ll tell yer. She milks Jerseys and feeds ’em, but, by gosh! she doesn’t wear ’em, confound yer pictut!” -Hdurlington Hawkeye. The old-fashioned knitted purse of our grandmother’s time is revived.

APACHE HOSTILES WHIPPED.

The Savages Break away, and 'Are Endeavoring to Get Into Old Mexico. The New Mexican Indians have for several days,back been on the rampage, killing settlers, stealing stock, and generally painting things red- The palefaces axa,,uow having their innings,' however, and the copper-colored cutthroats are on tho dead run. A dsipatch from Deming, New Mexico, reports: “Capt. Smith, of the itu cavalry, had an engagement with renetades, about thirty miles irom Alma, in which three soldiers and three Indian scouts were wounded. The Indians were repulsed, but with what loss is not known. Sixteen companies and sixty Indian scouts, are now in the field and will be shortly re-intoroed by two hundred Indian scouts from the San Carlos Agency, Arizona, composed, of Tontos. Mojaves, and Arivapai. At the time of the engagement with the troops Geronimo had his women, numbering about one thousand, in advance of the warriors, of whom there are thiity-fout' adult and half-grown braves. Gen. Bradley expresses the Opinion that the renegades will, if pressed too closely, strike for Cook’s Canvon, und into Mexico, east of Deming. In anticipation of this move, two companies of troops have been sent to intercept them at the canyon. The troops are crowding the reds on all sides, and another conflict is expected at any moment. So far eight men are reported killed, three near Alma, and five in the Mogollon Mountains.” A Waehington dispatch states that a telegram in regard to the recent Indian outbreak, of which the following is a copy, has been sent to the commanding Generals of tho Divisions of the Pacific and of the Missouri: “Use every exertion possible, and call for all assistance of Federal troops you may require, to suppress the Indian outbreak in Arizona and New Mexico. These outrages must be stopped in the shortest time possible, and every precaution taken to prevent their occurrence in the future. By order of the Secretary of. War. “R. C. Drum, Adjutant General.” The above order is the result of a conference between the President, the Secretary of War, and Mr. Oliver S. Teall, of New York.

GILBERT A. PIERCE.

Governor of Dakota Territory.

Gilbert A. Pierce, Governor of Dakota Territory, was born in New York State. He went to Indiana when 16 years old, and subsequently, studied law at the Chicago University. After his admission to the bar he practiced at Valparaiso, Ind,, for six months before the outbreak of the war. Upon the Monday following the firin-g upon Fort Sumter he enlisted in Co. H, Ninth Indiana Volunteers, and was elected Second Lieutenant. He served in Western Virginia under Gen. G. B. McClellan and participated in the battles of Philippi, Laurel Hill, and Carrick’s Ford. Upon June M, 1861, he was appointed Captain and Assistant Quartermaster by President Lincoln, and was assigned to duty at Paducah, Ky. He served at Fort Donelson and Shiloh and also in the Vicksburg campaign. He was promoted a Lieutenant Colonel and Chief Quartermaster of the Thirteenth Army Corps in 1863, and was made Colonbl and Inspector of Department 1864. By a written order from Secretary Stanton he was assigned tb duty as Special Commissioner of the War Department in the Southland served with Gen. Foster. Upon the surrender of Mobile he entered that city with the victors. In 1865 Col. Pierce was elected to the Indiana Legislature and •was Chairman of the Committee on Benevolent Institutions. In 1869 he was appointed one of the! Financial Secretaries of the United States Senate. He resigned this position to accept an editorial chair on the Chicago Inter Ocean. In 1876 he became managing editor of that paper, holding the position for several years. In 1883 he became connected with the Chicago AV-u-s, and was thus engaged when appointed as Governor of Dakota. When the grand reunion of all the armies took place at Chicago in 1868 Gov. Pierce was chosen to read the original poem on the occasion. He is the author of ‘‘Dickens’ Dictionary," published by James R. Osgood & Co , of Boston. He is also the author of several plays, one of which has been quite successful. He has written two novels, “Peggy, a Country Heroine,” and “A Dangerous Woman,” and also many sketches for the leading magazines, etc.

HARD LINES FOR EDITORS.

An Ohio Editor Receives a Coat of Tar and Feathers. V, „ Norwalk (Ohio) special to Chicago Times: Ray S. Hathaway, a reporter for the Toledo Democrat, has been in the habit of coming to Norwalk and sending correspondence to his paper embodying any gossip floating on the surface of current talk. Having printed a lot of slush of this character, Hathaway would come to Norwalk on the noon train Sunday with a lot of his papers, which he would offer for sale. He came Here as usual yesterday. This morning W. H. Peters, Henry E. Smith, and C. L. Merry, all merchants, who had been attacked in the J>emocrat, took matters Into their own hands. Hathaway was lured out to the St. Charles Hotel barn to look at a horse. Peters then seized and Merry and Smith tied his hands and feet. A physician was also present. Hathaway was then taken into the barn, where a pail of tar, a brush, and a bag of feathers’ had been previously placed. A coat-Of tar and feathers was quickly laid upon Hathaway, and he was left to his own reflections. A revolver and “billy," taken from his pockets, were turned over to the Marshak Hathaway was a sorry-looking sight atter he was released, and it took over an hour’s work by a number of persons to clean him up so that he could take the noon train to Toledo. The men implicated in the affair say they did not care what stories were ret died about them personally, blit wh n the characters of their wives were assailed they vowed vengeance. "» A Wisconsin Editor’s Spine Badly Hurt. Sparta (Wis.) telegram: An affray took place this morning at O. 1. Newton’s paper-mills, between that person and Ferry, editor of the Democrat, in the course of which both fell off a stairway to the ground, twelve or fifteen feet, and sustained serious injuries Newton’s hip was dislocated and Perry badly’ hurt in the spine,' Big Libel Suit Against an Indiana Editor. Fort Wayne dispatch: Terry Hilligass, County School Superintendent, has sued the Fort Wayne Daily Journal for SIO,OXI damages'because the Journal recently charged him with drinking, incompetency, etc.

The Seventeen-Year Locusts.

Washington telegram: Prof. Riley says the seventeen-year locusts, whose visit he has predicted, are harmless to growing crops and do no injury except to the twigs of forest and fruit trees. Wherever young orchards have been planted on land which has been cleared during the last seventeen years the trees are liable to suffer somewhat, but it is probable kerosene spray will protect them. The ordinary locust, which is so desti active to growing crops, has jaw-s which cut, while the seventeen-year species. more properly called the cicada, has only a beak through which he sucks' his nourishment.

Hog Cholera and Carbolic Acids

Eau Claire (Wis.) special: The ,bog cholera, which prevailed with great fatality in this and adjoining counties last fall, has broken out afresb, and to spread. A prominent farmer living a few miles from here lost some half-dozen animals last week from the disease, and others that were ailing were given a dose of fifteen drops of carbolic acid, whicn effectually cured them. Other farmers id the neighborhood have tried the acid, and found it to work effectively In every instance. The outlet of the Great Salt Lake of Utah is reported to have been discovered. Kansas Citi an A its suburbs are now reckoned to have a population of 143,803.

HORR, OF MICHIGAN.

He Makes a Battling Speech at the Banquet to Senator John A. Logan in Chicago, , And Gives Notice that “the Republican Party is Stjll on Its Feet Here < in the i'niteil States.” At a banquet and reception tendered to Senator John A. Logan by the Union League Club of Chicago, a number of excellent speeches were delivered by prominent Republicans. Hon. R. G. Horr, representing the State of Michigan, was introduced and spoko as follows: Mr. President and gentlemen of the Union League Club of Chicago: It’s hardly fair to summon a man as 1 have been from the woods of Northern Michigan by telegram and get him before such an audience as this and then com£el him to talk Extemporaneously after having stened to extemporaneous speeches all written out. I know there Is a haoit grown up in this country that if a man is called upon to say anything unadvisedly, as lam here to-night, and the morning papers show that he said the things that he ought not to have said and left unsaid the things he ought to have said—l say it is a common practice to relieve one's self by swearing at the reporters; but I wish to say here that I have suffered more by the reporters taking just what I did say. Now, there is nothinsfthat would possibly have given me more pleasure than to lie present here to-night to congratulate the people of Chicago and of Illinois upon the grand victory that had been won here in your State within the last few days, and I wish to say here that there isn’t in my judgment a single Republican in the State of Michigan that is not rejoicing as much as you are in Illinois, and even a good many—no, a few respectable Democrats, we have not a few—are also rejoicing with-yon. We like your citizen, Gen. Logan. XI e like his style. I can’t say why we like him, because the General is present, .but I will say this for him, we like him because be strikes out from the shoulder. Now, having served for several years in the branch of tho Legislature across the Capitol hallway from where the General has been serving, aye, more than that, I have the right to speak from a closer relation, for I had the good fortune to live under the same roof with the General for three years. I want to say to you to-night, I would rather have one suchtnan as John A. Logan than a ten-acrE lot of mugwumps and dudes. In the first place it arises from the fact that we always know where to find such a man as your newly elected Senator. Where you would find a mugwump God never knows. I like a man who is always on ope side or the other on every question, and who isn’t afraid to say so. He may be wrong once in a great while; it’s a fellow’s privilege to get wrong once in a while, but he will be wrong so you will understand it; he will mean what he says and.-try to be right, and when he finds that he is wrong he will get right just as quick as he can. But those fellows I’ve no use for who are always afraid of being on any side of any question; you can't do anything with them, finch a man as that never could have been elected in this contest down in Springfield—not now. Now I know that you Republicans of Illinois have a right to rejoice over this success. I didn't look for it. It looked to me as though you were at a standstill. aS though it was a tie, and I think after the first three months and twenty-nine days it began to look th-.t way to you, gentlemen; and I don’t know wheije we would be to-night if the Lord hadn’t removed Brother Shaw. That responsibility" having been taken by a higher power, who could blame the Republicans for stepping in and taking advantage of the opportunity? It was their duty to do it. Just how they did it I don’t know; it is too deep for me; it is enough for me to know it is done. We have learned one lesson from the fight of November last, out of which some of us went with our plumes a little bit drooped, you know, that even disaster sometimes is good tor a party that has been twenty-) our years in power. We had begun to find fault with everybody who didn’t run exactly according to our notion, Why, even this saint here before me [indicating Joseph Medlll] didn’t always praise us fellows as he ought to have done. The lesson was this, that any party to be successful wants to pull together, and this contest just, ended has shown that the old elements that used to run in such masculine manner through the Republican party still remain. You had but one majority, and. one man changed would have left you just as you were before that providential interference. And yet the party buried everything and struck out unitediv for the future. Now some people tell me that the present administration is being run in such a manner that it is going to lay every Republican out in the country. .1 know a-good many Democrats who think that they are being laid out. Now it is being run a little remaikable. If you notice that in the nominations thus far made, while some of them have been good ones, they have so far managed to hit every man who did the most he could to break up this government that they could find anywhere in the United States. It seems to me that if they had raked this country with a fine-toothed comb they couldn’t have found any more of that kind of men than they have found up. to date. But you shouldn’t be surprised at this, tome people say, “ Oh, why did he appoint such a man as that? He wasn’t loyal during the war.” You don’t expect them to appoint loyal men, do you? They cant doit; they have got to pick men who didn’t stand by their country in trial. It .is made up of them. So I don’t find any fault with the present administration for appointing men to office who were not true to their country; they .have got to do it. What Ido object to in this administration is their removal of men all over the United States on a false theory. They do it on the ground that the man is—what is that phrase? Oh, yes; offensive partisan; and then they put in a man whose offensiveness by way of partisanship is so much worse than the one they put out, that you can’t mention them the same day. Now, I don’t object to their turning ont Republicans if they will only say above board that they want the offices tor themselves. There is some truth in that. They are doing it simply because they want the Republicans out and the Democrats in, and that's all there is to it, and why don’t they say so? I know it is asking a good deal of them to tell the truth. 1 defy you to show * single instance where they have removed a man—suspended as they say in the papers -on account of being a partisan who hasn't been succeeded by a Democrat' as active a partisan, if not more active, than he was. jsowwhatis the gain? Yet I don’t find fault with the appointment of rabid Democrats. I want them appointed. I don’t Erant these milk and water fellows to get much on either side, but I want this administration run by men who believe in Democracy. I know it is selfish on my part, for I think that would cure the country as quick as any medicine you could give the people. Will they run the administration on Democratic principles? Some say it is doubtful, but I say to those who think this slow process of melting is going, |o get slower, you want to get ready to go. They haven’t intended to be any slower than they can help, sou have had removals in this town. Well, did they get some delicate man to put in your postoffice who never whispered on politics in his life? I don't know your Postmaster. I don’t suppose he is here—the new one —but is he a man who was never known politically? Did he never do anything? Did he never take sides? If he never showed his colors, he isn’t fit for Postmaster in Chicago. I say that the man who isn’t active and conscientious and believes in something, and then stands right up and fights for his views, if need be, isn't fit for any great office in this country. I want the offices to be filled always with live, energetic men. I know there is a theoiytfiat a capable man should be in office forever; that sounded well enough when I was in, but don't sound to well to the men who are out. Now, J hail this election as an announcement that the Republican party is still on its leet here in the United States, and 1 hail it as an omen that when three years, four years, more shall have rolled around they will find us once more with our armor on, and if they think they have got any stripling to deal with, they will find out before they get through that the Republicans of this country have still got the sinews in their bones, and that the struggles they have gone through and the one battle wi have lost have only given us more strength, more heart, and more victory in the future. I congratulate you, members of this club, and the General himself on the personal victory which must be to him moije gratifying than he can express, beckuse he was subjected to such a fight as no man has ever made within my memory in the United States for the office of Senator. He'"enters upon his duties with the experience of long years of service. I have no fears that he will do anything that will cause the people of Hlinois to regret the choice they have made. More than that, the Republicans of the United States feel assured that now they have still in the councils of the nation a man who is always right on all the great questions of the day. Thanking the dub for then: kind invitation, and thanking you for listening to my rambling remarks, I hope that in the future Illinois may be as successful in the election of her Senators as she has been in the chree months just passed. I bid you goodnight. ;

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Dwelling houses for rent are very scarce in Peru. ; i —A catfish was recently caught in the river at Lawrenceburg that weighed forty pounds. -.: j.. Ont of the 11,000 dogs owned in Evansville, only eleven have owners who hare Applied for licenses, so far. . ’ x —Elder M. M. Vanoleve, of the Baptist Church of Crawfordsville, performed his 531st marriage ceremony on Sunday. —Lucky Baldwin, the California millionaire, is an Indianian, says the South Bend Times, having left Olive Township, St. Joseph County, a little more than twenty years ago. , —Oren Van Winkle, of Markleville, Madison' County, a man about 24 years of age, committed suicide with a shot-gun. Disappointment in love is supposed to have induceddheact __ ' —The prospect of silver in paying quantities in the central part of Pike County is attracting attention. A test of the quartz has shown 10 per cent., or §lO per ton, of the ore, and lead shows 10 per cent. —Abiah Hayes, aged 71, of Elizabethtown, was married to Miss Anrelia J. Millon, aged 17, of Harrison. The affair was very quietly arranged, and not a single member of his family knew a word about it until the man drove homo with his bride. —A farmer’s wife in this State who runs a vegetable garden of half an acre, not only kept a large table bountifully supplied, but sold last year more than §IOO worth of vegetables to the town folks a few miles _ away. _ This half acre was of more profit than any four acres which the husband cultivated. Officers from Ohio arrested at Rich- - mend a lady who was formerly the wife Of a wealthy citizen of Cleveland named Cobb, charging her with kidnaping her own son, 9 years of age, the heir to a large estate. She has mairied again, and the administrator of Mr. Cobb’s estate seeks to obtain possession of the lad. The mother and child were discharged by Judge Kibby on the ground of defects in the requisition. —Tho late Schuyler Colfax, nt a meeting of the Daughters of Rebekah in Indianapolis last summer, declared from the rostrum that it was his pride to say that the Rebekah degree wqs the best kept secret in the order. Men had been expelled from the'order (Odd Fellows) for divu'ging the secret work, but there was no instance on record of a woman having ever proved recreant tb her obligations.— Albany Express. ‘ A —The Ledger has received from R. O. Brown, of Pike County, some handsome specimens of Pike County lead ore, plumbago or black lead, white kaolin, and fireclay. The lead ore is a fissure galena, almost pure. The plumbago is a very rich specimen. The kaolin is equal in quality and whiteness to any found in the West. The fire-clay is of a quality that may also be used in the manufacture of the finest stoneware.— New Albany Ledger. —The report of the State Board cf Agriculture for 1884 is now being distributed. It makes a volume of 495 pages, and contains, besides a .detailed statement of the business transacted by the board, a number of papers of interest to agriculturists. Among the subjects treated are “The Farmer and Higher Education, ” by Prof. C. H. Hall; “A Farmer's Recreations and Amusements,” by Miss Lulu A. Davidson; “French Agriculture and the Breeding of Norman Horses,” by Col. J. A. Bridgeland; “Food and the Adulteration of Some Articles of Diet,” by Dr. John N. Huity; "The Fish Interest in Indiana,” by Eno? B. Reed, State Fish Commissioner; “Fish Culture and the Profit of It,” by Isaac N. Cotton; “Fertilizers and Their Relation to the Growing Plant,” by F. G. Wiselogeli; “Destruction of Crops’by Insects,” byJ. G. Kingsbury; “The Value of Birds as Insect Destroyers,” by Fletcher N. Noe; “Road Paving Material,” by John T. Campbell. The , volume also contains reports from the officers of county societies regarding the condition of agriculture in different sections of the State. The volume will compare creditably with the reports issued by the agricultural boards of other States.

Casting Out Devils.

[Wabash telegram.] It has just been discovered that Mrs. „ Ohm, a widow living in the vicinity of Laketon, this county, professes to enjoy the power of divination, and has been regularly engaged in the business of “casting out devils” for some months past. She is said to have done a lucrative business, her patrons taking good care to maintain the strictest silence respecting, their relations wi h the lady. It is now learned that a man named Clinker.acting upon her advice, has sought to compel a rnan named Click, on whose farm he held a mortgage, to leave the country. Mrs. Ohm, upon consultation, having made the discovery that' a child of Clinker, who was veiy fil, was bewitched, and that the spe I. was due to the malign presence of Click, she said that Click must be gotten, away at all hazards, otherwise the child would die, and Mr. Ciinker has since been assiduous in his endeavors to secure his removal, going so far as to begin foreclosure proceedings on the mortgage. ■ This resulted in the expose of the whole superstitions - affair, and created a sensation of no small the vicinity of Laketon. —Elmer Swaisgood, aged 20, living with his parents on a farm near Plymouth, was instantly killed by a stroke of lightning. He was sitt ; ng in a chair in front of the house at the time. Other inmates of the bouse were badly stunned. —The residence of T. A. Biddle, of Terre Haute, the former residence-of- Geh. Jig.; ; Chas. Cruft and an old landmark, has been partially destroyed by fire. i ;—• • , Kokomo Lus a bicycle’ club of twenty members. . , J