Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — Page 7

CABINET PORTRAITS.

Bayard Patient, Whitney Blunt, Endicott Suave and Polite, garland Plain and ' Sociable, Manning Non-Cbm-mittal, Lamar Queer. [Washington special.] Secretary Bayard has a patient way of entertaining visitors. If he is satisfied at the first glance that he can dispose of a case in a few words, he will do so, but as a rule he rather enjoys keeping applicants, for office especially, on the ragged edge as long as possible. When he once gets interested, however, the Secretary is t> changed man. In the discussion of any topic he will go into the minutest details, and before he gets through he will exhaust his subject and listener as well. Mr. Bayard has been longer in public life, and has had more experience, thau any other Cabinet officer. This experience and knowledge of men and measures often enables him to dispose of business much more rapidly than he is given credit for. So far as personal manner of receiving visitors is concerned, Secretary Whitney is the sharpest contrast to Secretary Bayard. Mr. Whitney is a youthful-looking and’ handsome man. He wears glasses, and his clothes fit him admirably. No one has ever yet complained that Mr. Whitney equivocated. In this respect he resembles ex-Secretary Chandler, who had the tact of making the plainest, bluntest, and clearest statements in relation to matters in the Navy Department of any Secretary who has been in office since the war. Mr. Whitney is a good deal like Mr. Chandler in

some other respects. He is quick, nervous, and alert, has the gift of instantly seeking the main point at issue, no matter how much it is covered up with a mass of details, and the courage to speak out his mind at once. Secretary Endicott is the most aristocratic member of the Cabinet. Not every one can be admitted into his presence, but those who are have no reason to complain about their reception. A few days ago a gentleman called at the War Department and sent his to the Secretary. In a few minutes the messenger came out and said that Mr. Endicott desired to be informed as to the nature of his business. The caller grew furious and swore a blue streak, which made General Sheridan jump out of his seat and look up and.down the corridor. Then the caller told the messenger that that wasn’t his style of doing business, and went away in high dudgeon. Secretary Endicott is suave and polite to those with whom he comes in contact. Attorney General Garland makes every visitor feel perfectly at home. Personally he is one of the most popular of Cabinet officers. He has a peculiar vein of humor and an intense appreciation of the ludicrous. There is not a fiuer raconteur or a more inveterate practical joker in America than the Attorney .(general. He is a jovial, whole-souled, generous man, who hates shams, and who works hard and plays hard. If the President had searched the country through and through, he could not have found a man more thoroughly unfitted for his surroundings than Mr. Garland. His is the grandest office in Washington. Mr. Garland is one of the plainest of men—plain'in speech, action and appearance. Ordinarily he dresses in a well-word broadcloth suit, and he invariably wears a black slouch ‘ hat, tipped well down over his forehead. He looks as though he came from Arkansas and was glad of it. If ex-Attorney General Brewster could only take a peep at Mr. Garland as he daily sits in his office, he would hasten his trip to Europe to get rid of the scene. The Attorney General has an immense load of work on Ms-shoulders, but he carries it lightly. For his friends he always has a neat story told in an inimitable manner, and next to telling one he lovei tt> listen to others. Secretary Manning resembles the President in the way in which he receives visitors. He has a desk at the end of the big room on the second floor of the Treasury and- his callers sit and await their turn. He is a good listener—has a face like a sphinx—and says but little. He tire Cabinet. Occasionally, when aroused, he shows the stuff that is in him; is phlegmatic, impressive; and has the appearance of being able to receive good, bad, and indifferent news with the same outward calmness. Mr. Manning acts instead of talks. Like all newspaper men, he hates long stories. The man who goes to him with all his facts condensed, presents them with a few words and then retires, makes a greater impression upon him than those who weary him with an overabundance of verbiage. Postmaster General Vilas has his visitors sorted by the colored messenger before they are admitted to his presence. He is a good talker himself, and likes it in others, but, like 'Mr. Manning, he despises the tiresome bore. Gen. Vilas can be one of the most fascinating men. From the standpoint of pure oratory he has no rival in the Democratic party. Secretary Lamar has a queer way of receiving visitors. He allows every one to tell his story. Probably there is not a more patient man in public life than Mr. Lamar, and the crowds that spck to his office seem to appreciate that fact. When he is weary he has the highly original plan of excusing himself for a moment, going out through his private door to the street, mounting his thoroughbred, and speeding away for a ride in the country.

ILLINOIS ELECTIONS. The New Law Enacted by the Legislature The new election law just enacted by the Illinois Legislature was gotten up in Chicago, and is intended for that city. The law,' however, con be adopted by any incorporated town, if approved by a popular vote. It provides that the County Court shall superintend all elections; election precincts shall not contain more than 450 voters; no rnafcf can vote who is not upon the register; a canvass is to bo made of each precinct by the official canvassers prior to each election; triplicate returns and duplicate tallies are to be returned; the polls are to close at four o’clock in the afternoon. The bill provides penalties for all infractions of the law. The bill was framed largely upon precedents of the Massachusetts, New York, and California laws. ■ .; A. W. Rollins, of Chicago, who gave $50,000 of the $150,000 required to build the college in Florida, has christened the institution, recently opened, “Kollins College.” It is under Congregational influence, though non-sectarian, and admits both sexes to its classes. Bishop Niles, of New Hampshire, has lately received from Mrs. A. B. B. Tilton, of Tilton, N. H., an unsolicited gift of SIO,OOO, to be used in establishing in Con- “■ cord the proposed Episcopal school for girls. This gift is memorial of her daughter, Evelyn Tilton. . General Sheridan has invented a new dish, composed of young pigs’ tails fried in seasoned with cayenne pepper and trimmed with grated celeiy. All it lacks is ■ mystifying French name. '■<s> An eagle kept in Vienna, Austria, died after a confinement of 114 years.

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Capt. Fred H. Marsh, United States Marshal for the Northern Illinois District. The fight over the Marshalship for the Northern District of Illinois was of such a lively character as to create an interest in political cifcles all over the country. Capt. Frederick H. Marsh, the successful aspirant, whose portrait is herewith presented, was bom in England on Sept. 7, 1843, and became a citizen of Oregon, HI., in 1855, and at the present time is Sheriff of Ogle County. In September, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, fifteenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, but was discharged some time after, on account of sickness. In October,

1861, he re-enlisted in the Forty-sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and, continued steadily in the service until he was mustered out at Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 20, 1866, having been in the service four years and eight months, during which time he was promoted to a Captaincy. Captain Marsh was a member of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth General Assemblies. In 1869 he formed a partnership with his brother, Charles F. Marsh, and opened a book and stationery store under the firm name of Marsh Bros., until about 1870, when ho retired, and some time later was appointed express agent. In 1870 and 1871 he was Town Clerk of Oregon. As Sheriff of Ogle County he has given good satisfaction, and is very popular with his constituents. The Late Sir Julius Benedict. Six Julius Benedict, the famous composer, whose death recently occurred at London, Eng., will bo remembered by many Americans as the gentleman who accompanied Jenny Lind to this country in 1850. He was born in Stuttgart in November, 1804, where Hummel, the great piano virtuoso of the time, became his tutor. When seventeen years of age he was taken in hand by Weber, who came to regard him as his son. In 1823, on Weber’s recommendation, he was intrusted with the leadership of the Vi-' enna opera. On leaving Weber he went to

Naples and conducted the opera at the Saint Carlo. Iu 1835 he went to Paris, where he fell in with Rossini, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Donizetti, Auber, and others. The same year he went to England and adopted it as liis home. In 1836 he took charge of the London Opera Bouffe at the Lyceum Theater. He led the Drury Lane orchestra at the fame of- -the production-of- the great Balfe’s operas. When Jenfiy Lind decided to come to America she invited Sir Julius Benedict to be her pianist and general director. Returning to London, he became manager of Her Majesty’s Theater, and afterward at Drury Lane. * George Moritz Ebers. George Moritz Ebers is chiefly known to American readers as the author of a series of historic romances, among which “The Egyptian Princess” and “Uarda” have thrown a nineteenth century irradiation over that mysterious land of the Sphinx, which has been so long enveloped in truly Egyptian darkness. These romances, however, were bnt thfe accidental sequence of previous years of patient investigation, which added his name to the list of distinguished Egyptologists. “The Ebers Papyrus” is the second in extent and the first in preserva-

tion of all the Egyptian hadwritings known tons. It contains a complete manual of Egyptian medicine of the sixteenth century before, Christ. Among the curious presciptions herein contained is a recipe for hairdye ascribed to Teta, mother of one of the earliest kings of Egypt. The original of this is now the property'of the University Library at Leipsie, a copy of which Mr. Ebers laid before the Congress of Orientalists in London, in 1874. “The Egyptian Princess” appeared in 1863. A severe illness, resulting in lameness, keeping him a prisoner to his own room, proved the golden opportunity of developing his hitherto latent creative powers and crystallizing his science with a romantic form for the edification of general readere. Since that time his work has alternated between scientific researches and works of imagination.

Ada (aged fojjr), who was doing something, was told to desist by her mother. Mother: “Ada, am Ito apeak to you again?” Ada: “Yes, ma; you may if you like.” Cincinnati girls sometimes drown themselves before their wedding day. They apprehend, probably, that the bridegroom may poj; in making his escape. The widow’s home is with her second husband as soon as she can get one.

Republicans Must Go.

It is related of Appointment Clerk Biggins that his favorite amusement is to walk about the departments, drawing his linger across his throat to signify decapitation, and muttering “Republicans must go." This statement looks as though it may have been made in a figurative sense, but it corresponds with another statement which comes from ah independent source and has a very real appearance. The second statement is conveyed in the following Wash ington dispatch to an administration newspaper: The Democrats throughout this city were very much gratified over the report given by Senator Voorhees of an interview that he had with the President. Senator Voorhees says that Mr. Cleveland told him that he intended to remove every Republican officeholder of any prominence at the very earliest possible moment. “The President,” said the Senator, “ assured mb that not one of them would bfe left. The only delay now would s mply be that which was absolutely necessary to sec'ure good men to put in their places.” And this is confirmatory of what has been claimed. There is to be a genera) change, and the bulk “of these changes will come very soon after the beginning of the fiscal year. Whether or not Higgins perambulates the departments giving the sign of decapitation there is no reason to doubt the Voorhees story. The President is becoming more and more convinced every day that he was elected for the purpose of redistributing the offices, and that he must do this work to suit the Democratic politicians who put him in office. His surrender to the lowa politicians in the case of the Marshalship for the Southern District of that State is plainly indicative of the course he will pursue, and we have no doubt that the report made by Mr. Voorhees will be fully verified, except as to the appointment of “good men.” It was simply absurd to expect ol Cleveland that he would be a non-par-tisan President and a consistent civilservice reformer. Such a result would imply that he was stronger than his party. There has been nothing in his career, towarrant such a conclusion. It may be that he owes his election to the mugwump vote of New York, but be was elected, nevertheless, as a straight Democratic candidate, and not as a mugwump or Independent. He has called about him a set of Bourbon advisers Manning, Bayard, Garland, Gorman, and so on. He is accountable primarily to the Democratic party, which has struggled for twenty-four years to get possession of the offices. As a prominent Democrat in Washington put the case some time ago, “The Democrats have won a glorious victory, and we do not propose to feed the enemy on our rations.” The Republicans must go. Cleveland could not prevent it if he wanted to, for he could not stand up against the universal demand Of his party and the combined assault of Congress. Bui he does not desire to make any fight foi the retention of Republicans in office. He is in the hands' of shrewd advisers, and he has been “going Blow” as a matter of policy. By a pretense of conservatism in the early days of bis administration be can make a favorable impression upon the people, and a first impression will withstand a good deal of subsequent violence. By delaying appointments somewhat he also gives the factions and contestants an opportunity to wear themselves out in the struggle, and he and his associates have time to determine what appointments will create least antagonism. His catchword, “offensive partisan,” is made broac! enough to include every man who did Mr. Voorhees reports him—“not one ol them will be left. ” The official a± is working pretty well now. It is being lubricated every day, and will work faster and faster as the date'for the convening of Congress approaches. All the Demoorats who want office will not be accommodated, for there are not offices enough to go around; but they will get all the offices there are. —Chicago Tribune.

An Unexampled Outrage.

Where and when was active and open rebellion against a government not considered a bar to political advancement under that government and a damning crime? Where and when was the prince of leaders of a conquered revolution, a suppressed rebellion, dubbed an able statesman, a loyal, patriotic citizen by those highest in authority in the government ? Has it not rather been the rule that the s 'ns of the father in this respect tainted the children at least of the first and second generation? Yet under a Democratic administration the loyal people of the nation are daily outraged by the appointment to the most honorable positions in the gift of the Government of the rankest and most unrepentant traitors the Government has ever known. It is unexampled. —Kokomo Tribune.

Still Glorying' in Their Shame.

It was the increase in the Southern vote by enfranchising the negro which elected Cleveland President of the United States. The measures which the Democrats denounced give to the South thirty additional Representatives in Congress and the same increased nnmber in the Electoral College. Strike that number of votes from tin* Electoral College in the. Southern States, and it will be seen that Blaine and Logan would have been elected in November last, instead of Cleveland and Hendricks, —Memphis Appeal.

Secretary Manning’s attention has been called by a prominent civil-service reformer to two of the bureaus in the Treasury Department which afford an excellent opportunity for a study of the comparative effects upon the public service of the spoils system and reform methods. These bureaus are the offices of the Treasurer and the Third Auditor. The Treasurer, looking merely to the interest of the Government, has secured the capable administration of his department by retaining the experi-. enced officials who have done good service under a Republican regime.* The Third Auditor, on the other hand, has - discharged so many of his best men to make room tot Democrats that his office is actually crippled. —Chicago Tribune. ’ . i ' "

A MOB’S VENGEANCE.

Five Black Fiends Lynched in Texas for a Most Horrible Crime. Randolph Hazel], living on the outskirts i of Elkhart, Texas, attended a village dance, ; says a dispatch fiom*that place. His wife, only twenty-three years old, had intended accompanying him, but at the last moment changed her mind and retired with her two children, telling her husband to go to the dance and have a good time. When Hazell returned abont midnight he entered his wife’s chamber, intending to wake her and gossip abont the dance. Ho found the two little children sleeping, but the mother was gone. Striking a light, the husbrad soon discovered that his wife’s clothing was all there, and, finding the front door unlocked, he at once surmised the truth. He ran to town, gathered half a dozen of his friends, and began a search. Near the doorway of his residence, in the soft mud, were visible the tracks of two men with large, broad !feet Between these tracks was the delicate imprint of a woman’s foot. When the poof husband saw this he fell on his knees and asked God to kill him. He knew what the tracks meant. Dogs were quickly given the scent, and at 2 o’cl&cY in the morning, through the aid of the animals, the body of Mrs. Hazell was found abont a mile from the house, and only twenty-five yards from the main road. She was nude, and lying upon her face. The jugular vein had been severed with a common knife. Along her cheeks were visible great gashes made with a dull knife, and around her neck was a dark, black circle, as though she had been hanged Near the body was found a pair of men’s drawers, and 300 yards away was found a man’s undershirt. As soon as the Sheriff arrived from Palestine, some twelve miles .distant, a rigid examination was commenced. Over twenty negroes were immediately arrested and examined. The body of the dead woman revealed the fact that she had been repeatedly outraged. The theory of the officers was that after outraging the woman the fiends, fearing they had been recognized, determined to kill her. After murdering her they attached a rope around her neck and dragged the corpse about oneeighth of a mile. All this took place within a few yards of a public road about 11 o’clock at night. Over a hundred persons traveled the road that same night. In the house of Andy Jackson, a negro near by, was found a rope clotted with blood and hair, and also a white sheet with a woman’s footprint upon it. Andy Jackson, Frank Hayes, Sam Collins, George Henry, William Rogers, and many-other negroes were arrested.

The following day the Coroner began an investigation, which was in progress until midnight. The prisoners were in a large vacant store-room, which was heavily guarded by twenty Deputy Sheriffs. During the progress of the inquest at one place in the village another examination, looking to identification of the guilty parties, was going on before Justice Darke. In the Coroner's court twelve suspected negroes were examined separately. Investigation developed the fact that the negro Andy Jackson, near whose house the nude body of-Mrs. Hazell was found, had been refused water out of the Hazell well. It seems that Andy Jackson’s wife had been in the habit of going to the well early drawing water. Fearing prolonged drought recently, Mrs. Hazell objected to Jackson’s using so much water. This cost the poor woman her life. In her examination before Justice Parke, Mrs. Jackson partially admitted that she had threatened to kill Mrs. Hazell, but stubbornly refused to divulge all she knew. Her young daughter, Lizzie Jackson, was finally sworn.and after a little coaxing and threatening she confessed what she knew about the crime. It was almost midnight when she told the awful story. She said her mother, whose name was also Lizzie, and her father, Andy Jackson, hatched the plot to murder Mrs. Hazell. Learning that Hazell would attend a dance, her father went out, and returned with three colored men, named Frank Hayes, Joe Norman, and William Kogers. These men and her father, Lizzie said, committed the crime. At this point Lizzie’s mother was brought in and confronted with her daughter’s confession. The mother broke down and supplemented the confession with sickening details. She said she accompanied the men to Mrs. Hazell’s house, and showed them where her bed stood. After they had carried their victim some distance from the house they threw her on the ground, and while Andy Jackson held a pistol at her head each of the other three brutes outraged the poor victim. Mrs. Jackson confessed that she stood by and saw the outrages perpetrated. “After this,” said the black woman, “we killed her and dragged her body to the place where it was found." As soon as the Coroner’s jury learned of the confessions they immediately returned a verdict in accordance with the same. At 1 o’clock next morning the verdict was generally known on the streets, aqd squads of malting white men began to form into companies. All day and night teams from the country had been arriving, bringing men with long guns. At 2 o’clock fully 500 were in line. Not a single negro was to be seen anywhere. The mob marched to the storeroom where the prisoners were confined. At first the Deputy Sheriffs were inclined to show fight,, when the leader notified them that it was useless. “We will kill every one of you, if it is necessary, in order to hang those brutes, ” said the leader. That settled it. The mob came in and picked out the negroes above named, including Andy Jackson and his wife Lizzie. With their five victims the mob marched about a mile, until near the very spot where the murder and outrage were committed. There, near a negro church, on the limbs of a big tree the five brutes were strung up. They were asked no questions, and given no time to pray. It seemed as though the mob could not get them hanged quick enough.

Chicago Realty.

An investigation made by the Times shows that within the business district proper of the city, bounded on the north and west by the river, on the east by the lake, and on the south by Van Boren street, all but forty pieces of property are owned by residents of Chicago, with mortgage incumbrances of less than 5 per cent. Ten years ago nearly one-fourth of this area was owqed by non-residents, and 90 per cent- °* the remainder was heavily mortgaged. The buildings in this district cost more than SIOO,COO, COL . In the New York Supreme Court judgment for $142,662 has been rendered against Xathanial Sands in favor of the city of New York. The suit was brought to recover moneys paid Sands during the Tweed regime as commisioner for negotiating municipal bonds. . - »• ’ ' ’ l r& v ‘ L The late Bobert Treat Paine, of Boston, bequeathed- $50,000 for the endowment of a chair of practical astronomy at Harvard College. • The bicyde is to be officially introduced into the Bavarian army. ' ‘

THE DEATH ROLL.

Official Record of tbe dumber of Deaths in the Union Army Daring the Rebellion. fWashington special.! Twenty years have ijiassed since the dose of the civil war, and now, at last, a careful official record el the number of deaths that occurred in the Unlop army has been made. A little more than twelve months ago, on the 2d of Jane, 1884, Gen. Drum directed Mr. J. W. Kirklev, an experienced statistician of the Adjntant General's pfiice. to begin the compilation of this record, with the aid of ten clerks. A minute and exhaustive exploration of all attainable official loenments has how prodneed a table of statistics which far surpasses in completeness anything on the subject hitherto existing. To state tbe grand result at the outset, the table shows a total of 1 9,853 deaths of commissioned officers and 349,913 deaths of enlisted men. making an aggregate of 359,496 deaths among the Union forces The period included in the record is, for the regnlar troops, tbe ln-te-val between April 15, 1861, and August 1, 1865; for a portion of the volunteers it is prolonged beyond the latter date until the muster out of each organization. It will be remembered that the troubles in Mexieo and other causes occasioned the retention ol some volnateers in the service after the downfall of the Confederacy. Indeed, as Mr. Kirkley note*, the last white volunteer organization was disbanded November 18, *1867, and the last colored regiment December 20, 1867, while the last officer of the volunteer general staff was not mustered out until July 1, 1869. Yet, carefnl as the examination of the records has. been, one lack renders It still far fTom complete. The death registers of some of the largest prisons at the South, used for the confinement of Union soldiers, are missing. For the prisons at Americns, Atlanta, Augusta, Charlestop, Lynchburg, Macon, Marietta, Mobile, Montgomery, Savannah. Shreveport, and Tyler, the registers have not been secured at all, and the importance of these prisons is well known. Only partial records were had from the prisons it Cahawba, Columbia, Florence, S. C„ Millen, and Salisbury. There have been ways, It Is true, of partly working up. these deficiencies; but, on the other hand, as Quartermaster General Meigs, cited by Mr. Kirkley, has shown, in many Southern prisons three 6r four corpses of Uhlon prisoners were sometimes buried In the same trench, and ;the number of graves only imperfectly Indicates the number of dead. Even in this most imperfect record the number or Union soldiers known to have died In captivity was close upon 30,000—in exact figures, 29,498. The late investigation, we may add, has increased by abont one-sixth the records of deaths among Union prisoners. Taking Mr. Klrkley's tables, we derive from them the following general results: Enlisted Aggre- • Officers. men. gate. Killed or died of w0und5.6,365 - 103/(73 110,038 Died of disease 2,795 2517791 224.586 Drowned 106 4,838 4,944 Other accidental deaths.. 142 3,972 4,11* Murdered 37 *B7 624 Killed after capture 14 86 100 Committed suicide 26 365 391 Executed... 267 267 Executed by enemy 4 60 64 Died from sunstroke..... 5 308 313 Other knewn causes 62 1,972 2,034 Causes not 5tated........ 28 12,093 12,121 Totals 9,584 # 349,912 359,496 The official tables, as published from a manuscript copy in the Army and Navy Journal, further distribute all these classes ol deaths among the Union tioops by States, it being exfdained that the phrase “other known causes” ncludes deaths resulting from quarrels not amounting to murder, from being shot by sentries or by the provost guard, and miscellaneous causes. Without going into minor details, If we select the three leading causes of death, and then include both these and all others in a column of aggregates, we shall reach this result in a classification by States :

Killed | Died of Died of £-t & • States. in action| wounds, disease. p££ Off. ! m7|os. it? off. m? *“ Alabama.... 3 16 1 28 1 227 309 Prisoners 2 .... 22 39 845 Arkansas...i 9 225 6 63 12 1242 1633 Prisoners.. 3.... 8 SO 1713 California.... 4 69 2S 3 8 336 573 673 C010rad0..... 4 114 .... 35 8 117 322 Prisoners 1 323 Connecticut. 81 1024 66 751 57 248> 472-1 Prisoners.. 2 26 1 625 633 6354 Dakota., 2 4 6 6 Delaware.;.. 18 189 11 165 10 849 BC6 Prisoners.. 75 761 882 Dis.of Col.. 3 26 1 10 5 145 2301. Prisoners 1.... 2 .... 44 60j 290 Florida 8 .... 10 2 187 213 ...... Prisoners ..... 2 216 Georgia, 13 15 16 Illinois 339 5535 ! 205 3666 307 20758 32886 Prisoners I 7 142: 3 1718 1948 34834 Indiana 244 4028 151 2733 204 16429 25363 Prisoners 5 82, 9 1143 1309 26672 lowa 119 1946 71 1254 100 8398 12295 Prisoners ...."IT 139 7 608 706 13001 Kansas 24 494 7 181 27 1611 2564 ....;. Prisoners 2 29 ... 36 86 2630 Kentucky... 95 1390 39 801 121 6263 9754 Prisoners 53 1 869 1020 10774 Louisiana... 4 125 6 80 3 621 929 Prisoners.. ~,, ~,,, ~,, 1 15 16 - - 945 Maine 116, 1658 86 1291 69 5198 8732 Prisoners 4 80 .... 641 666 9398 Maryland.... 33 494 15 351 18 1142 2260 Prisoners 16 7 640 722 2983 Massach’ts.. 248 3457 117 2174 60 6470 12078 Prisoners Z 116 6 1477 1864 13943 Michigan... 156 2642 65 1478 75 8194 13294 Prisoners 8 99 3 1265 1458 14763 Minnesota.. 21 373 11 209 26 1651 2392 Prisoners 12 .... 159 192 2584 Mississippi 8.... 66 78 78 Missouri.... 101 2089 e 6 1040 118 9125 13553 Prisoners 29 .... 225 334 1385 Nebraska.... 1 29 .... 6 2 157 237 j Nevada 2..... S 3 33 N.H’mps’e.. 84 970 43 741 37 2390 4482 Prisoners 32 .... 294 868 4850 New Jersey. 114 1550 33 828 27 2388 6232 Prisoners 5 48 1 418 622 6754 New Mexico. 3< 64.... 46 5 138 277 277 New York... 772 11329 351 6314 329 19606 40988 Prisoners.. 20 299 16 4604 5646 46634 N. Carolina.. 4 25.... 13 4 212 290 Prisoners 1 .... 49 70 360 Ohio 402 6433 228 4303 262 19103 32764 Prisoners 11 211 12 2344 2711 36475 0reg0n...... 1 9 .... 1 .... 21 45 45 Penhsylv’a... 808 8772 268 5315 181 11602 28420 Prisoners 8 352 7 4114 4763 33183 R. Island.... 18 278 10 148 16 632 1218 Prisoners 6 .... 84 103 1321 Tennessee... 25 441 16 240 44 4042 6495 Prisoners - 22 .... 1160 1282 6777 Texas 8 .... 4 1 100 133 Prisoners 1 8 141 Vermont.... 64 997 33 876 31 2*66 4689 Prisoners.. wrt 1 38 4 485 635 6224 Virginia 4 .... 6 .... 16“ 29 ...... Prisoners W 18 42 W. Virginia. 61 717 18 412 20 1*» 3340 Prisoners 2 37 .... 617 877 4017 Wisconsin... .115 2270 71 1270 101 7363 11590 Prisoners.. 5 71 4 600 711 12301 Wash. Ter 2 10 22 22 Ind. Nations. 4 82 1 20 18 757 1016 Prisoners.. 2 1018 Vet. K.corps .... 1 .... 26 26 1398 1682 1682 Vt.VoI(H.O) 1 3 79 106 108 VoIEg.AS.S. 9 1581 6 91 3! 244 627 Prisoners,. 25 25 552 Vol Infantry .... 6 1 5 2 200 2§ 243 Gen AS.Off. 60 32 ....» 142 236 Prisoners 2 1 3 239 Col’d troops. 100 1615 43 1102 137 29621 36366 Prisoners 34; 1 97 291 36847 MUUaneons 13 .... 3 .... 200 230 Prisoners.. .... 2 2 232 Reg. army.. 85 91262 56 838 104 2448 5192 Prisoners 1 3 39i 3 537 606 6798 !_i S 1 fi _ Total 4142'62896 2124 33804 2712,197008 329998 Prisoners.. *..j | 99j 1973 83 24783 2949 b Aggregate... 4142

This atrurccate o£ nearly 310,080 deaths of Union soldiers must bo supplemented by a like record of Confederate soldiers, in order to find the real number ot victims to the war in both irmies. Then the naval deaths must also bo iseertained and added. Many a soldier and tailor met a fate more dreaded than death in being crippled for life or made the prey of lingering disease contracted in the service.

Boil Your Drinking Water.

The Washington Star publishes a letter from Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, who recommends shat all water for drinking purposes, unless known to be pure, be boiled a half hour. He related his experience with it (hiring :he Philadelphia Exposition, and says that tie believes this course would have averted he epidemic at Plymouth, Pa.

Horrible Attempt at Suicide.

Patrick Kelly, a middle-aged man living with his family*at the comer of Stone avenue and ; Aberdeen street, attempted to commit suicide by sawing open his abdomen with the rongh edge of a broken tea-, :np. He was attended by several physicians who said it was doubtful if he lived. He is supposed to have been temporarily ieranged.—CAicapo Tribune. v Anthony Fboude will visit Harvard ind Yale while in this country. The ’Bake of Argyle is the beet orator imong the British peers.

IMPORTANT DECISION

The Supreme Coart of Indiana Affirms tliw Constitutionality <f the School Tax Law. [lndianapolis telegram.] The Supreme Court to-day rendered a de- ' cision in a case of much importance, holding that the present statute, authorizing the various public school corporations of tbe State to levy taxes for tuition purposes, » constitutional and valid. The suit was originally brought in Switzerland Couhty to enjoin the Treasurer from collecting such a tax, and the injnnctiou was granted This decision was reversed in ,the Supreme Court to-day, Judge Elliott writing the decision, which Was concurred in by all the other Judges. A great number of cases are reviewed in the opinion, showing that the case of Greencastle Township vs. Black, 5 Indiana, Rep. 537, was, in principle, long since overruled in so far as it decides that the law delegating to local school officers the power to levy taxes for tuition purposes is in conflict with the provision of the Constitution which requires the Legislature to establish “a general and uniform system of common schools. ” The decision overruled is the one which, in 1851, overthrew the school system. In tbe opinion great stress' is pi iced upon the purpose of the Constitution and the Court says: “ With the plainly declared purpose of the people before us, and with the knowledge that the system which has ] revailed for eighteen years has carried our schools to a high state of prosperity and usefulness, we she aid do a great wrong, if, without the strongest reasons, we shonld overwhelm that system and compel the adoption of another which would shatter into inefficiency the whole common school system.” Much weight is also given to the long line of decisions, beginning in 1857, which held that taxes may be le vied by local officers to build and equip schoolbeuses, and it is held th it there is no difference between taxation for that purpose and for the purpose of paying teachers, the Coart using this illustration: “If the te&cher of a private school were to send to the father of one of his pupils on account for tuition and afterward a bill for use of the place where the school was conducted, the position of the teacher would, on principle, be precisely the same as that occupied by those who affirm that the power to levy a tax to erect school-houses may be delegated, bnt the power to levy a tax to pay teachers cannot be.” It is further said, in the course of the opinion, that “a system which grants to all the various subdivisions of the State eqnahnffL uniform rights anA prmleges, leaving only to the local authorities the right to govern the local affairs, is a general and uniform system. ” Postmasters’ Salaries. [Washington special.! The salaries of Postmasters at all offices of the first, second, and third classes have been readjusted for the next fiscal year. This is tbe first readjustment based on the returns from the 2-cent letter rate of postage for an entire year. The following is a list of all the offices of the grades named Id Indiana, where there is a change in salary. At offices notin this list the salaries remain as at present. The salary for next year is given in the first column and the present salary in the second column: New Old salary, salary. Ang01a....... $1,20 j si,3eo Auburn..... j. 1,300 1,400 Aurora 1,C0) 1,700 Bedford..* 1,:&0 1,400 Bloomington....*:. ■»............. 1,500 1,(00 Bluffton 1,400 1,500 Brook vi11e..... 4thclass 1.000 Butler -.. 1.000 .1,100 Cambridge City 1,000 1,200 Covington..,.,- 1,000 1,100 Crown Point, 1,100 1,200 Decatur 1,200 1,300 Fort Wayne.' f 1... 2,890 2,900 Fowler. ..............,4th class 1,000 Goshen.. 2,2u0 Greencastle 1,900 1,800 Greenshurg 3,6<j0 1,700 Hartford City 1,000 1,100 Huntingburg 1,000 .... Jasper .* 4th class I,MO JettersonviUe I,7W> 1,800 Kent land *...,. 4th class 1,000 Knightstown...., 1,200 1,300 Kokomo.* 1,800 1,900 Lafayette » 2,600 2,700 La Grange 1,200. 1,300 Lawrencebnrg 1,400 1,500 Lebanon t,soo 1,4159 Liberty l.mo 1,200 Marion '. 1,700 1,800 Martinsville 1,100 1,200 Mishawka 1,400 1,500 Mitchell 1,000 1.100 Monticello 1,200 1,300 Mount Vernon 1,400 1,500 Muncie 1,800 1,900 Newcastle*..... 1,400 l,£oo Noblesville. 1,500 1,4t0 North Vernon 1,100 1,900 Notre Dame 1.600 1,500 Plymouth * 1,500 1,600 Portland 1,400 1,600 Rensselaer.... i.OOO 1,100 Rochester 1,490 JJtoO Rockville 1,200 1,300 Seymour...- 1,600 1,700 Spencer 4thcla?a 1,100 Sullivan ’ 1,200 1,300 Thornton. ..4th class 1,100 Valparaiso 2,100 2,200 Warsaw. A;. - 1,600 1,700 Washington.. IJSOO 1,600 Waterloo 4th class 1,000 Winchester 1,400 1,500 Winamac 4th cla is 1,000

State Items. —W. J. Kiplinger, grocer at Loogootee, has failed. . ■ ' _ ' ' „ " ' " > - —Among the cadets at Annapolis Naval Academy who will graduate this year is Arthnr H. Dutton, of Indiana. —At Wabash, the passenger depot of the Cincinnati. Wabash and Michigan Bailroad at that point was destroyed by fire, which originated in the lnnch-room adjoining. Tne ice-house of William Collins, adjoining, was also partially consumed^ —A farmer Jivipg in Oregon Township, Clark County, thought the cold winter had killed all of his peach trees. He cut most bt them down in the spring, but those he left standing bear fruit. The mistake has caused him much loss, as his orchard was a valuable one, and would have yielded a big crop. The cold weather did not injure peaches in Clark County. —Mr- Jonas Howard, of Jeffersonville, has announced his intention of building a wagon and street-car bridge connecting Louisville and Jeffersonville. He has had this project in view for some time, and has interested some of the capitalists of Jeffersonville in the scheme. If he can accomplish as mnch with the moneyed men of Louisville plans will be matured immediately looking to the building of the bridge. —Conrad Plank, a wealthy and influential resident of CassUounty, was killed by a runaway on his farm. He was thrown against a gate-post, and, a splinter penetrating his abdomen, he died almost instantly. —Edward Gordan was fatally shot by the driver of a Columbus street-oar, who chums it was an accident, his p|stol striking the brake-handle. ’ . —John H. Wiley, a wealthy lumber dealer of Indiw&polis, was killed by a train.