Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1885 — Page 7

ISSUES IN OHIO.

The First Formal Speech by General Foraker in the Ohio Campaign. Position of the Republican Party on the Tariff and Other Questions. The Difference Between the Democrats in 1860 and the Republicans in 1884. The Hon. J. B. Foraker, Bepubllcan candidate for Governor of Ohio, delivered his formal opening campaign speech at Portsmouth on the Ist inst. He first called attention to the manner in which the Democratic party was put out of power in 1800, and compared this with the way in which the Repub.ican party was put out of power in 1884. 'lhe Democracy was defeated in iB6O because the people wanted to condemn the principles and policy of the party. But not so was the Republican party turned out of power as the result of the election of Mr. Cleveland. Instead of its principles and policies being condemned, it enjoys the exceptional gratification as it goes out of power of an unaualitied approbation, for all that it has done for the twent,y-iour years it administered the affairs of our Government, by the whole American people, Democrats and Republicans alike. Ton will search its record in vain to find a single measure of national importance that has ever been adopted by it tjiat the people are displeased with at this time. Inasmuch as the only ground upon which the Republican party was seriously assailed by our Democratic friends in the last election was that of dishonesty and corruption, I want, before quitting the matter, to go further than to simply point out the fact, as I have done, that we have been exonerated from that charge by our Democratic friends, and give some additional testimony to the same effect. It is without doubt most desirable that our civil service should be improved in some important particulars; but it is nevertheless true that, notwithstanding whatever defects there may bo in the methods governing appointments to the civil service, our civil service has nevertheless been, under Republican administrations, the best that any country has ever been blessed with in the history of the world, so far as both efficiency and fidelity are concerned. As proof of this I wish to submit here again for the consideration of the people of Ohio some figures that I have presented on 1 other occasions, but which cannot be too much kept in view. Every patriotic man who has the credit and good name of the American Government at heart ought to be proud of them, whether he is a Republican ora Democrat. They are at once a high testimony to Republican official fidelity, and a high example worthy of emulation by our democratic friends. I sincerely hope when their lease of power is ended they may present as creditable a record for themselves as these figures proclaim for us. What I refer to are figures which no Democrat can challenge the correctness of figures that no Democrat will attempt to dispute. They relate to frauds and defalcations under the different administrations. The only criticism 1 have heard of them has been that they do not necessarily show all the frauds and defalcations that have been committed under Republican administrations. However that may be, they do show and are, therefore, perfectly just* for the purposes I use them, all the frauds that have been committed under Republican administrations of the same character as were the frauds committed under preceding administrations. They are, therefore, an absolutely just measure for comparison between Republican administrations. They are figures which show the amount of loss to the Government by defalcations and peculations of all kinds on the part of public officials on each SI,OOO of public moneys handled by them under the respective administrations of our Government, from Washington’s down to the present administration. They show what these losses were on each SI,OOO of public moneys handled: Under Washington's administration $2.22 John Adams' 2.59 Jefferson's 2.75 Madison's ’ 4.16 Monroe’s \ 8.58 John Quincy Adams'..... 4.97 Jackson's,., 7.52 Vanburen’s 11.71 You will notice that under the most thoroughly representative Democratic administration we have ever had, these losses are far greater than under any other administration. Under the Harrison and Tyler administration these losses were $6.40. Under Polk’s administration, $4.08. Under Taylor and Fillmore’s administration, $4.19.

Under Pierce's administration, {3.58. Under Buchanan’s administration, $3.81. Buchanan’s administration was the last Democratic administration. When it went out the Republican administration of Abraham Lincoln came in; but Lincoln came into power with a great war on his hands. He was compelled to raise an army of a million men and put them in the field, and maintain them there for four years, to suppress a gigantic rebellion. He was compelled to raise and put on the ocean, and maintain it there, a great navy. To carry on this stupendous work it was necessary that he should have thousands of men handling the public moneys, where, in times of peace, one man has been sufficient. It was necessary also that these representatives of the Government should, handle thousands of dollars each where in time of peaoe there had been one dollar handled. But that was not all. Amid the turbulent excitement and pressing necessities of such a war it could not be expected that the highest care could be exercised in the selection of public officials. Besides that, war always brings with it, as one of its greatest afflictions, a sort ofdemoralizatlon that makes men less careful than they are disposed to be under other circumstances You would naturally suppose, therefore, that the losses under Mr. Lincoln's administration upon every SI,OOO of public moneys handled would be far greater than they were under any previous administration of the Government. But not so. It was not until the Republican party came into power with Mr. Lincoln as President that the people of this country were made to know what it was to have honest and faithful public servants; for under his administration, notwithstanding all the difficulties attending it calculated to promote losses and frauds and defalcations, the losses upon each SI,OOO of public moneys handled, instead of being $3.81, as they were under Buchanan’s administration, were but 70 cents. And then came Andrew Johnson's administration, and these losses were still further reduced until they amounted for each SI,OOO to but 67 cents. And then came Grant's administration. He was President for eight years. It was dnring his administration that my worthy opponent. Judge Hoadly, who had uhiffl that time been an ardent Republican, became so dissatisfied with the Republican party because of its alleged corruption that he ctould not any longer stay in it, but exercising his reserved rights, Withdrew from it in order that he might find what was claimed by him to be a niore honest, incorruptible, and congenial party association. That is to aay, he left the Republican party because it was too corrupt to stay in, and joined the Democratic party in order that he might help, among other things, to elect Henry B- Payne to the Senate of the United States. But you will observe that when he quit this party because of its alleged corruption, instead of these losses increasing, as such a charge would lead you to suppose they would, they fell straightway from fifty-seven cents, as they had been under Johnson’s administration, to only twenty-four cents under Grant’s administration. And then came the administration of President Hayes, for whom Judge Hoadly seems to have no respect or patience whatever, probably among other things because 'of the fact that under his administration these losses fell to only three mills on every $l,0oo! And now our Democratic friends have found, among other things, that under Chester A. Arthur's administration these losses' amoun'ed to but one mill and eight-tenths of a mill on every sl,ooo'of public money handled! May it not be possible that the result of last year’s election was not to "turn the rascals out/ but to "turn the rascals in r" At any rate, I feel warranted in repeating the assertion that there is nothing in the mere fact that the Republican party is out of power to discourage the fa th of any Republican in the principles of Republicanism. After touching upon the Southern question, the Mullen outrage, and the business policy! of the administration he came to the discussion of the wool and tariff questions: Two years ago our Democratic friends arraigned the Republi an party all over the State upon the charg) of having reduced the tariff duty on wool. They promised the people of Ohio that if they should be returned to power they would restore the tarifT duty on wool of 1867. We answered in that campaign that the Republican party was not responsible so-- the reduction of tariff duty on wool, and pledged ourselves to the wool-growing interests of the Btate to restore that dnty at the first opportunity. We have not had an opportunity to act npon that pledge; but our Democratic friends have had such an o< portunlty. Mr. Converse introdnoed a resolution in the House of Representatives providing for a restoration of the duty of 1867 on wool; but his resolution was overwhelmingly voted down by the Democratic party by a practically unanimous

vote, the Republican party, by a practically unanimous vote, voting for lr, as we agreed ‘ in Ohio that it should da On the floor of the Honse of Representatives, when that measure was pending, the attention of the Democratic members was called to the fact that the Democracy of Ohio had made a solemn pledge to the wool-growers of Ohio to vote for the restoration of that dutv. But in answer it was tauntingly said that the Democracy of Ohio were not the Democracy of the United States; that the Democratic party of the t’nion would not recognize or honor any such pledge; that, on the contrary, the Democratic party was opposed to such restoration, and they voted accordingly. Afterward Mr. Morrison introduced a measure which provided for placing some articles on the free list, and for a horizontal reduction of twenty per cent in the tariff duties upon all other articles, wool included, and for this measure the whole Democratic party, with practical unanimity, voted, while the Kepublican party, almost to a man, voted against it, and thus, so far as the Honse of Representatives was concerned, it was demonstrated and made matter of record that instead Of restoring this tariff duty of 1867, they were ready to violate their pledge In a refusal to do so, and to add the further injury, which would have been a practical destruction of the wool-growing interests of , Ohio, Of still further reducing the tariff by twenty per cent. But they went further. When the National Democratic Convention met in Chicago in June of last year they refused to incorporate in their platform a declaration favoring a i betoration of the duty of 1867 on woo 1 , and in the same platform in which is contained the declaration that X have referred to, viz., that “the Democracy of Ohio are the friends of the agricultural and wool-growing interests of Ohio'," is contained another plank, which approves and reaffirms the N ational Democratic pi a tform of 1884. And so it is, therefore, that alongside of this declaration of the platform on which Judge Hoadly stands, that "the Democracy of Ohio are the friends of the wool-growing interests of the State,” is another which retuses. by approving and reaffirming the national platform, to favor a restoration of the tariff on wool. In view of these broken pledges, in view of the refusal of the Democratic party to favor, Mr. Converse’s resolution, in view of the support of the Democratic party of the Morrison Dili, in view of the action of the National Democratic Convention, and in view of the approval of that action by onr last State Democratic Convention, it would seem t* be the height of impudence for anybody to claim that they are the friends of the agricultural and wool-grow-ing interests of Ohio.” They would be ashamed to do so if it were not that it seems impossible for a Democrat to be ashamed of anything. When the Republican party came into power in 1860, as I said in my opening remarks, we had a free-trade policy established and enforced in the interests of cotton, the claim of the cotton planters being that unless they could get their corn and meat and other articles of food and' farm products necessary to enable them to feed their slaves and carry on their operations at the. cheapest possible price, they could not raise their cotton and send it into the markets of the world in successful competition. The result was just what they contended for, so far as the farmers of the Middle and Western States were concerned, that they did get all their farm products at the lowest possible price. Com was so cheap that it would not pay the cost of transportation, except to the very limited quantity required by the South. The result was that each year a large surplus was burned for fuel in some of the Western States, for the want of a market in which to sell it. There were no growing interests, no foundries, no factories, no mills, no machine shops, no great industries of any kind springing up throughout the agricultural regions at which labor could be employed, and a r on-producing class created to constitute a market for the farmer. The result was that the farmer had to confine himself to the production of Such staple commodities as could bear long transportation, and he was compelled to content himself with such unremunerative prices therefor as that to a large extent he realized nothing whatever from his labors. But when the Republican party came into power and enacted a tariff law, it had the wisdom to see that the policy which it was inaugurating—protection—would be as important to the farmer as to the manufacturer or any other class of people, and therefore, while levying protective tariff duties that led to the opening of our mines and Ore beds, the bui ding of furnaces and mills and factories and forges and foundries and machine shops, and the estab- ’ lishmentof every other conceivable industry of which our country was capable, thus creating home markets for the farmer at which he could sell his corn and his wheat and oats and barley and potatoes and all kinds of garden products, it also provided that there should be a protective tariff duty levied upon Tht importation into this country of every bushel of wheat, rye, oats, barley, potatoes, corn, and eyery other kind of product that the farmer could bring forth, to the end that after it had created thiß home market, it should be preserved to the enjoyment of the American farmer, to the exclusion of our Canadian brethren, and all the nations of the earth who might want to come into our country to supply them. And so It is, therefore that in the protect've tariff policy we have pursued there have been established for the American farmers the most abundant home markets, and these markets have been assured to them as against all outside competition by tariff duties levied on all their products. No language can fittingly describe the beneficial results of this policy. Some idea of it may be gathered from the fact that in the twenty-four years the Republican party administered the affairs of the nation, our aggregate wealth was swelled lrom $14,000,000,000, which represented the total wealth of this country accumulated during 250 years of American civilization, to the enormous sum of $45,000,000,000, which is estimated to be the wealth of the country as it now passes to the control of the Democratic party. In other words, under the twenty-four years of Republican rule the country more than trebled its entire wealth of 1860. Every farmer who is old enough to remember the price of his products before the war can by comparison of these prices with what he realizes for his products to-day see that the purchasing power of his products has been doubled and trebled. A horse that brought S6O before the war will bring $l5O now; a cow that brought sls to S2O before the war will bring S4O to S6O to-day: a dozen of eggs that sold fQr 3 cents beforethe w&r_ will bring from 10 to 20 cents a dozen now. “Before the war ■ft” took a pound of butter to buy a pound of nails; yon can now get a pound of nails for a pint of skimmed milk.” And so yon may run through the whole list of farm products and the result will be found the same. But it is said that while it is true that what the farmer has to sell brings him a better price, yet it avails him nothing because all that he buys costs him more. Nobody says this, however, except only theoretical freetraders, who only read books and never look to practical results. The exact reverse is the truth. Everything that the farmer buys, from a combined reaper and mower to a pocket-knife, is from 100 to 500 per cent, cheaper than it was before the war, and while 50 to 100 per cent, cheaper, it is. at the same time from 100 to 500 per cent, better. Every article of clothing that he wears, from the hat on his head to the shoes, on his feet, costs him less and is better- Theoretical free-traders talk about the farmer being taxed on bis clothes, but I doubt if there is a farmer in all the State of Ohio who wears a single article of clothing of any kind that has passed through the custom house. Everything is manufactured in this country, manufactured by American mechanics, and cheapened in price, far below what it cost when under free trade, times it was imported into this country by American competition. The most important farming implement is perhaps the combined reaper and mower. All who are of middle age can remember when reapers were first invented and brought into use, and they will remember also that they were crude, awkward ungainly, and almost unserviceable, and yet cost from S3OO to S4OO each. They could cut the wheat, but they did not rake it, much less bind it. But to-day the reaping machines of the country not only reap but rake and bind also. The machine of to-day is of the most skilled workmanship, apparently absolutely perfect as a piece of mechanism, and of the very best quality of material. It is no exaggeration to say that it is 500 per cent, better than its predecessor that cost S3OO. But now you can buy one of them anywhere for $l4O. Take another illustration. I recently talked with a gentleman who is connected With the Columbus Buggy Company. They make and sell annually about ten thousand buggies. Their standard buggy, sold ten years ago for from S3OO to $350. At that time it was made with iron axles, and a very inferior quaJityjOf workmanship as compared with that which' produces it to-day. The varfiish, the leather, the cloth, almost every article that entered into its construction at that time, was of foreign manufacture, made by foreign laborers, fed by foreign farmers. But to-day all those articles are of American manufacture, made by American laborers, fed by American farmers. One item alone will indicate what has occurred in this business. Until five years ago they used iron axles. They cost at that time, when they qnit the use of them, $4 a set. That was cheaper than they had ever before been’ bought At that time they quit the use of iron axles because there had sprang up in Ohio, at Cleveland, and at Coßhocton, and elsewhere in other States, establishments for the manufacture of steel axles, and these establishments had so perfected their machinery, and their workmen had become so skilled, ami their other facilities so improved, that they were able to produce steel axles at a price that made them preferable to iron ;.xles; land the steel axles which they thus and then commenced to buy have!, by reason of competition between these establishments and others throughout the country, since continually cheapened as the result of that competition, . until they to-day cost but $2 a set. And as it has Iwen with the steel axles, so it has been J with every other article that eaten into the

construction of a buggy. The result is that by the protection that encouraged these industries to start we have been given establishments that have constituted home markets for the former, largely added to the wealth of the country apd enabled the production and sale of a buggy tUnX. cost, ten years ago, S3OQ for $135, and thereby • made it possible not for one or two fai mers ixi a community to have a buggy, as w& the case thirty 'years ago in this country, but for any farmer who is in anything like reasonable circumstances to enjoy such a luxury. And as. it has been in the matter of reapers and buggifes, so too has it been with everything in the natttre of a necessity that a farmer has use for. Instead of being dependent upon a foreign market, which Is uncertain and variable, and which will not in any event take more than a fraction of onr product, the American farmer has been given a home market which is absolutely certain, which is right at his door, and which last year took over 98 per cent, of the corn product and more than 75 per cent of the entire wheat product of the United States. Not only is it a market that thus largely consumes all that the farmer raises, but it is a market, th-t pays better prices than were ever, realized before or that can be again if it should be destroyed. And as it has been with the farmers, so too has it been with every other industry. It has been the policy of the Republican tarty not only to protect the manufacturer and the farmer, but to protect every other class, including especially the wage laborers of the country. And what 1 want to call particular attention to is the fact that while the prices of farm implements and buggies and all other American products have been continually cheapening and cheapening and cheapening in the manner I have described, yet that cheapening of prices has not been In any instance at the cost of the laboring man. For if yon will go into the Columbus Buggy Company's works at Columbus, Ohio, and make inquiry, or go into any of the machineshops at Springfield,' Ohio, or into any of the mills, or forges, or furnaces, or foundries of the State, you will learn that while common labor may have varied somewhat during the last ten years, yet it is substantially as well remunerated to-day as at any time daring this period, and that skilled labor commands also practically the same prices. The cheapening is the result of improved machinery and the increased skill of workmen. A buggv-dash that cost $5 to make ten years ago can be made to-day by the aid of machinery for $1.25. Sewing that oould be done a few years ago only by stout men is to-day done with the greatest facility by machinery operated by women. The prosperity Which the country has enjoyed has not belonged to any one class—it has been participated in by every class—it h»s been universal. From mere selfish consideration, therefore, every man should favor a protective tariff, as opposed to a free-trade policy for America. But it is also the patriotic policy. When Abraham Lincoln called an army into the field to defend the life of the nation a million men were ready to respond, but, to the discredit of the country, it was not able to put clothes on their backs or guns in their hands. The result was that we gave them shoddy unitor ms that would scarcely hold together, and Austrian muskets that were almost more dangerous to stand behind than in front of. But before the war was over every soldier carried a gun of American manufacture, and when the war was ended, and that great army came marchipg home from its great victories, it wore the best uniforms that any soldiers were ever clothed with, all made from American wool, grown upon the backs of American sheep, and manufactured in American mills,all brought into life with Aladdin-like magic under the invigorating and inspiriting impulse of a protective tariff.

THE COLORED TOTE.

Reasons Wliy the Negroes Should Support the Republican Party, [lndianapolis Colored World.] Upon what issue shall they divide ? Why should the negro ignore all principles of justice and honor, andsupport parties and measures whose tenets and leaders have ever been, are now, and from the outlook ever will be opposed to our enjoyment of equal civil and political rights? It has been under the guidance and fostering care of the Eepublican party that the transformation in the status of the negro during the past twenty-five years has taken place, with no small part of the credit accruing to the negro himsfelf. It may not be all that we desired, but from what party could we have gained more ? All opposition to our citizenship, to the amendments guaranteeing our rights, came from without the Republican party, notably from the Democratic party, and to-day this same organization with whom some of our people, with more advanced ideas, are anxious “to divide,” are as bitterly opposed to the negro as ever. Is it because we are no longer slaves of any political party, and are freemen, that it is necessary in order that we should establish or promulgate the fact that we are free to the world, and to satisfy ourselves of the truth of the same, that we should sacrifice our principles, vote against what we honestly believe to be right; sacrifice our political ally, and try a cold experiment which has not one single virtue to recommend it, or promise that it has ever made to encourage our people to lend it their aid and support. There are a few individual instances of reward bestowed upon colored men for services Tendered in their efforts at “division,” but, like all contracts of the kind, obligation ceased when the goods were delivered. “The Democratic party never has and never will court the negro as an ally,” has been truly said by a prominent member of that party. “If we can use him we will do it: but his place is in the Republican ranks, and he can be trusted nowhere else.” It is our duty to*, support that party whose principles are nearest in accord with oqr own. Or, if we desire to support the party that gives us the “largest recognition,” certainly it is the Republican party. Shall we divide just for the sake of experimenting? Is there any issue npon which we may differ among ourselves, honestly, that our race may be benefited by the division? Until a better party than the Republican presents itself for our suffrages, we had better bear the ill of which we complain than ! to fly to another known to be far worse. ! The balm of Gilead, administered by j Hon. John Sherman, is a nauseous dose to those superfine and sensitive souls who cannot bear to be told that there was any principle involved in the late war, and who rush with eager haste, hat in hand, to welcome to power the men who sing the praises of Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate. We feared this would be the case. One of our esteemed contemporaries is puzzled in its little heart to know whether Mr., Sherman or the Republican party is going to seed, while still another mournfully remarks that “those who looked for a statesmanlike utterance from Senator Sherman will have to turn away from his Mount Gilead speech with the reflection that there is no balm for the people, no physician for the party.” This is intensely sad; yet the fact is that Mr. Sherman made his speech for full-grown men toread—men who have back-bone,and are not afraid to say that the spirit that eulogizes Jefferson Davis in the United States Senate, and which lowers the national flag to half-mast over public buildings at the death of a despicable traitor and scoun drel like Jacob Thompson, is not one to be encouraged if the future of free government is to be conserved. Mr. Sherman appeals .to the men of the country, not to the' manikins. —lndianapolis Journal'

DOWN TO DEATH

four Girls and Two Men browned in the Fox River at Oshkosh, Wis. A Frail Boat Suddenly Capsized by the Swell of a Passing - Tug. [Oshkosh (Wis.) special.j The most melancholy case of drowning chronicled in the history of this city occurred at an early hour this moruing near the draw of the Milwaukee and St Paul bridge, Vhich crosses the Fox River. A dozen operatives in the Diamond Match Cempany’s works, principally young girls, were being rowed across the stream in a frail boat, and being caught in the swell of a passing tug, the craft was upset and six of the party drowned. When the boat began to rock in the waves several of the girls became seized with terror, and in their apparent madness rose from their seats, and, rushing to one side, caused the terrible accident. A young man named Wolff, who was of she party, reached a landing-place first, and though somewhat exhausted saved one or two lives with great difficulty. The other persons were saved by a young man named Starbeck, who pushed out from shore after witnessing the accident. Those rescued were m an exhausted condition. As the news of the accident spread hundreds of people were attracted to the spot, and among them relatives of the lost ones. The scene during the search for the bodies was painful to witness, and tears and lamentations rent the air. In three hours from the upsetting of the boat all the bodies were recovered and taken to their desolated .homes. The names of the drowned are: Johanna Matsohie, aged 20; Augusta Wiese, aged 15; Emma Bauer, aged 18; Lena Maidle, aged 12; Philip Berry, aged 18; Louis Dicht, aged 25. With the exception of Berry, the dead men were members of the poorer class of laboring people and assisted in supporting their parents. Berry, who was night watchman at the bridge, was under a contract with- the girls to carry them across the river for so much per week. It is said that he was careless in the management of the boat, and intensified the fright of the girls wlfifen the boat first began to feel the effect of ’‘ the waves. The place where the accident occurred is one of the deepest points in the river, the water being thirty feet in depth. The water was chilly, and those who were thrown into it were so numbed that they could not assist themselves. Their cries were heartrending when they fell into the water.- The accident causes universal sorrow. There are various rumors concerning the cause of the accident. It is asserted That the watchman, who is among the dead, rocked the boat on purpose to frighten its occupants, and that this was the starting point of the accident. Afte,r the waves struck the boat, they claim, all were so terrified that they lost their heads and looked only for safety. The people of the neighborhood where the dead resided are greatly incensed and threaten to do bodily injury to the day watchman at the bridge, who had also made a practice of carrying passengers across the river, but there is no reasonable cause for this, as the persons were satisfied so have the men ferry them, because the distance by the regular avenues of traffic was two or three miles longer than by this route. The watchman, It seems, conducted the ferry without having obtained the consent of the agents of the road hero, and the railroad men do not hold themselves liable for the accident.

MINERS CRUSHED TO DEATH.

Four Men Killed and Six Badly Injured While Descending a Wilkesbarre Shaft. [Wllkasbarre special.] At the Oakwood shaft, just outside the city limits, the property of the Lehigh Yalley Coal Company, the men employed in the mine were going down the shaft on the carriage, aB usual, to their work, at 7 o’clock this morning. The shaft is eight hundred feet deep and ten men are letdown at a time. A cage load was descending, and had almost reached the foot of the shaft, when a rattling sound was heard overhead, and immediately after, a large rock crashed through the sheet-iron covering of the carriage, killing three of the men outright and so fearfully injuring another that he died shortly after being taken to the hospital. Several others were slightly injured. Ihe names of the killed are; John J. Martin, a miner, aged about 35, unmarried, and living with his widowed mother in this city. James Kearney, a laborer, aged about 25, unmarried. John Peterson, a miner, aged about 26, married, and living at Parsons. Thomas Jenkins, a laborer, about 28 years old, single, and living at Miners’ Mills. Those injured are; Patrick Smith, bruised inside and on the back; Patrick Pursell, slightly cut in the back; Patrick Kearney, slightly bruised in the hip and on the right leg below the knee. The lastnamed gives the following description of the accident: “Goingdown the shaft, I was standing almost precisely upon the place where the hole was broken through the roof of the cage by the piece of rock, but when I heard the noise of the rock coming down against the side of the shaft above, and the smaller pieces striking the roof, I somehow stepped to the center and under the cross-beam which supports the roof. The others were running bitand forth to find a place'of sate:,, and all knew what the sound meant. The position saved me, as pieces of the rock struck the roof and crashed down through on the other side. My lamp was put out, and as the carriage struck bottom I made a step and went into the hole that had been broken in the floor. One of the smaller pieces of the stone hit my hip. I got but of the place and half fell off into the gangway. My presence of mind had not deserted me; and my first thought waß for my brother Jim. I called to him but there was no answer. Then we searched the wreck, found the bodies of the others all mangled and bleeding, and finally Jim, his feet on the edge of carriage and his body and head lying over the edge in the water of the sump, dead. ” ... General Buckner’s staff in the. Confederate army furnished the country with three Episcopal Bishops—Gallagher, who is now Bishop of Kentucky; Harris. Bishop of Michigan ; and Elliott, Bishop of Texas, t Osman Bigma is becoming a reclnse, and declares that he is going to die and join the Mahdi at Mecca. GEN. Miles and his wife are said to be the handsomest Couple in the army. Artificial human ears made of celluloid are the latest novelty. '-V

“GIVE US YOUR MONEY!”

Passengers on an Alton Train Eobbed by Four Half-Frightened Missouri Bandits. But Small Sums Taken, the Desperadoes Apparently Being Tery Much _________—-Harried. [Kansas City dispatch.] A bold train-robbery occurred on this Chicago and Alton Railroad to-nigh), bnt owing to the sudden flight of the robbers but little booty was secured. As the westbound train on the way to the city left Blue Springs, twenty miles from here, about 9 o’clock to-night, fonr masked men appeared at the smoking-car and were about to board it. A number of men, however, were standing on the platform, and the robbers passed to the next car in line, the day-car. Three of them climbed npon the forward platform and the fourth got on at tbe rear. A man then mounted guard at each end of the cor, while the other two entered, and, with drawn revolvers, commanded the passengers to give up their money. A number of them handed ont small amounts of change, while one man, in his excitement, passed out his purse, containing $23. The robbers took whatever was offered without searching the passengers, and made no attempt to rob them of jeweliy. When the pair had reached the middle of the car they beeame suddenly alarmed, and, polling the bell-rope, the four robbers sprang off when the train slackened speed, and disappeared in the darkness. The train passed on, and the conductor. James Boggs, reported the affair to the officials of tfie road from the next telegraph station. The train then proceeded on its way to this city. The passengers on the other cars knew nothing of this matter nntil it was all over. Then there was excitement among the timid, and many hastened to secrete their valuables and prepare for a return of the robbers, even though all danger had passed. The pkssengors of the car that was robbed bad scarcely time to realize what had occurred before the robbers had disappeared. The booty secured amounted to about S3O in money, nothing else being taken. The robbers are described as appearing awkward and nervous, and evidently unused to such work. They ware roughly dressed and looked like farm-hands. Each wore a black mask. J. H. Andrews, a business man of this city, who was on the platform of the smoker, relates that when the men approached the car he thought they were tramps. They boarded the second caras the train was pulling ont from the station, and a moment after he started for the rear of the train. At thtvrear door of the smoker he was met by the guard, who pointed a revolver and called upon him to stand stilL He obeyed, and from the doorway watched the proceedings in the other, car. The whole transaction, he thought, did not occupy over five minutes before the robbers commanded a brakeman to pall the hellrope and stop the train. Blue Springs is a small station in a thickly wooded district, situated near Glendale and Blue Cut, the scenes of former robberies in the days of the James gang. The train, which was duo here at 9:30 p. m., was nearly an hour late, and on its arrival preparations were made to send a special train from here with a posse to search for the miscreants. Every effort will be made to apprehend them. The robbers started northward from the railroad, and a posse from the town was soon in pursuit. The men were seen about the Btation before tbe train arrived. One was dressed in a brown coat, black pantaloons, and hat, and had black hair and mustache. His weight is about 150 pounds. The other men were not noticed closely enough for a description to be obtained " '*

CHINAMEN BUTCHERED

Coal-Miners in Wyoming Displaced by Celestials Take Bloody Seven Men Slain and Their Homes Bnrned —Ailing and Aged Chinamen Cremated. [Rawlins [Wyoming) special} The largest coal mines in the entire Union Pacifie system are at Bock Springs, 120 miles west of Rawlins. The road has recently been importing large numbers of Chinese to fill the places 1 of white men. This afternoon the entire force of white miners, numbering about 150 strong, organized, and, armed with shot-guns, marched to that portion of the town occupied by the Celestials, and after firing a volley into the air, reloaded and ordered the “pig-tails” to leave. The order was obeyed at once, the Chinamen fleeing to the hills like a drove of sheep, closely pursued by the miners. Several volleys were fired at the fugitives with fatal effect The Chinese quarters were then set on fire, and thirty-nine houses owned by the company were destroyed with their contents. The miners next visited the various mines in the camp, unearthed all the Chinamen at work therein, and bade them flee for their lives. They flew. Of some four hundred Chinamen who made Rock Springs their home this morning, not one remains. All are in the hills heading for Green River, thirteen miles further west. Seven were killed outright by the shots fired by miners, and many are Wounded. -It is said also that several feeble and helpless from disease perished in the flames at Chinatown. Sheriff Young arrived at the scene from Green River by a special train this evening with a posse of deputies, but too late to prevent Hie mob from carrying out its plans. The miners quietly dispersed after making sttre of the departure of the Celestials, and all is quiet. The Union Pacific officials appealed to Gov. Warren for protection, and Asst. Gen. Supt. Dickinson and Supt. Wurtele are en route for the scene of trouble by a special train- Both of these men are popular with the minors, and will probably be able to quell any disturbance likely to arise now. The Chinese have now been run out of Rawlins, Carbon, Laramie, and other points iip Wyoming. Clark Whittier, brother of the poet, has purchased 60,000 acres of land in Swain County, North Carolina, where it is proposed to lay ont a town to bear his name. It is designed to give the new town a fame for religion, morality, and temperance, ■'' w ' A drummer swam the Mississippi River at Dubuque, lowa, on a bet He crossed the river in forty minntes with bis clothes on, and won S2O. - .-jf _ %x-Senator Thurman is very fond of whist, but he won’t tolerate a dull partner

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Henry Beavey’s livery stable and adjoining buildings burned in Hnntihgton last woik. Loss, $1,00.). —City Marshal Ancbrson, of Brazil, shot and fatally wounded Jesse Varner, who attempted to escape from his custody. —Henry Hahn, a musician, who came to this country witk CarL Schnrz, was killed by a train at Indianapolis Monday morning. Some persons assert that he committed suicide. —William Ripley, assistant ticket agent of the Monon Route at Indianapolis, decamped, taking $478 belonging to the railroad, and jewelry and diamonds belonging to private parties. —Charles Bizzy ran a knife two inches into the head of Charles Gebhart at a picnicrin Harrison County. The blade broke and was buried in Gebhart’s head. They quarreled over a game of chance. —Thomas A. Marshall committed suicide at Indianapolis by shooting himself. He was a farmer, bnt had been living in Indianapolis with his father for some months. He recently married his stepsister, and this, it seems, caused family troubles, to which his suicide is attributed. —Wesley Mayfield shot and instantly killed George Lyton near Sullivan. An old grudge had existed for some time. They met, and Mayfield, being armed with a double-barreled. shot-gun, fired both barrels in Lyton’s face. Mayfield has given himself up to the authorities. Lyton, it is claimed, was unarmed. —John Rosenmeyer, a farmer liv.ng in Dearborn County, : rmed and barricaded himself in his honse in a fit of delirium tremens and then mounted a heap of furniture which he had fired. When finally overcome and rescued his eyes were burned out and be had received other injuries from which he cannot recover. —The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the new City Hall occurred at Laporte under the conduct of the Masonic fraternity, and preceded by a street parade, participated in by the city authorities, Fire Department, and other civic societies. Gen. Jasper Packard delivered the oration, and was listened toby a large concourse of citizens, —Two young women, members of prominent families at Seymour, were determined to “see the world for themselves,” and disappeared from their homes. Their absence; was soon noted by friends, who sent telegrams to neighboring towns. and they were discovered in a box-car “beating their way on the railroad - ’ and returned to their parents.

—William Wilson, living in the southern part of Shelby County, told his wife that as soon as he got some money for a job of work he proposed to get drunk, shoot the whole family, and flee the country. He came home afterward drunk, and commenced to abuse liis wife, who fled for the house of a neighbor, Albert Wright. Wilson following in close pursuit, armed with a shotgun. Just as she got into Mr. Wright's house he fired at her, the load of shot lodging in the door and on each side, but she escaped injury. —The special delivery system of the Postoffice, which goes into effect Oct. 1, does not apply to all postoffices in the United States, bnt to between 50) and 600. Selected from the list are the Indiana postoffices where letters to which is affixed the extra postage will be delivered immediately upon their receipt They are as follows:

Andarson, Jeffersonville, New Albany, Aurora, Kokomo, Pern, Columbus, Lafayette, Richmond, Crawfordsville, Laporte, Seymour, Elkhart, Lawrenceburg, South Bend, Evansville, Loeansport, Terre Hante, Fore Wayne, Madison, Valparaiso, Goshen, M.cbigan City, Vincennes. Indianapolis, Mancie, Washington. the post town of Hickory Grove. Dubois County. He is the Postmaster of that place, pension agent, notary public, storekeeper, farmer, and fur-buyer. In early life he married the daughter of Ezekiel Rutherford, one of the wealthiest men in Marion County. By her he has six children now living, one of them married. It is reported that he has deeded his farm ta his wife and eloped with a grass widow named Lizzie Willetts, who has two children, whom sha left behind, after appointing a guardian for them. At the same time a sister of Potts’ eloped with a married man named Randall Corbin. —lndiana's vast army of school ohildren are again about to be marshaled for active service. During the month about to begin the many schools of this State will reopen, aftey the and the active wort of education will be resumed. But, meanwhile, the leaders, the superintendents and teachers, have not been idle. All through the summer new methods of instruction have been considered, and the best of them selected. The county institutes held during the past few weeks have been the best that the State ever had. The attendance has surpassed all those of the past, and it has been demonstrated that there are more applications for schools than can be accommodated. This affords school officials an Opportunity to choose the best, and to secure good teachers. The future of education in Indiana was never better, and with proper management the State may easily retain its position in the fotemost rank of education. —lndianapolis Journal. —Rev. Father Peytbien, of St Francis Xavier Cathedral at Vincennes, startled his congregation by preaching against night promenading of women on the streets. Shopping expeditions, he thought, should be made in the daytime. —ln an accident on thp Indiana and Illinois Southern Railroad, near Newton, one &an was fatally hurt and twelve or fifteen other persons more or less injured. —The mother of a Fort Wayne infant weighs 537 pounds.