Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1885 — Page 7

JUNKETING REFORMERS.

Necessary Expenses, Including Drinks, of Dr. Eaton's Civil-Service Board. [Washincton cor. New York Sun (Dem.).) The law creating the Civil-Service Commission provides: Each of said Commissioners shall be paid his necessary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his duty as a Commissioner. A batch es very interesting accounts are just now under the scrutiny of the Treasury officials, and it is pretty well settled that a good many items in them will be objected to and will probably fail to pass. Dr. Gregory seems to be the champion billmaker. A sample of his accounts will be of interest March 18 last the learned Doctor left this city for Detroit and the West. He was gone twelve days, and the following are the items of his account: , United States to John W. Gregory, Dr. March 18—Railroad fare to Detroit... $ 14.25 March 18—cab. Inunh. papers 2.00 Mardh 18—Parier-car to Pittsburgh. 1.00 March IS—Berth to Detroit and porter... 2.25 March 19—Meals, porter, hack 1.50 March 20-Service, papers, hack, and porter. March 2o—Fare, Toledo to Cleveland...... 3.25 March 20—Hotel 6.00 March 20—Chair, car, lunch, porter, hack, and papers. 2.00 March 21—Hotel bill, Weddell House, Cleveland 3.00 March 22—Fare to Chicago . 10.00 Match 22—Berth, porter, cab 2.75 March 23—Fare and berth to St. Paul.... 14.50 March 24—Meals, porter, papers, hack.... 2.15 March2s—Hack, service, porter 1.05 March 25—Fare, Minneapolis. 30 March 25—Hack, meals, porter 3.20 March 25—Fare, Madison. 10.50 March 25—Section 4.00 March 26—Hack, meals, porter, service, and papers ■ 2.35 March 28—Hotel. Madison. 6.75 March 28—Porter and omnibus 50 March 28—Bare. Chicago 4.60 March 28—Service and paper 1.05 March 28—Dinner 75 March 28—Papers 15 March 28 —Hack. 50 March 28—Service 1.85 April 1— Bill at Grand Pacific 10.00 April I—Serviee 45 April I—Papers 15 April-I—Cab and porter 85 April I—Fare, Washington 26.50 April I—Meals and lunches 3.50 April I—Porter and hack 75 April I—B-rtli 2.50 April I—Notary’s fee. 25 April I—Papers...... . 15

Total $15?.15 The whole matter tums s on the word “necessary.” Are newspapers necessary ? What is the service which appears so often upon the Doctor’s bill ? Auditor Chenoweth is in doubt whether it is religious service or boot-blacking. The railroad fare from Chicago to Washington is sl3 instead of $26.50, as solemnly sworn to by the Doctor. The Doctor charges up,under date of March 25, $4 for a section in the sleeping-car. Auditor Chenoweth says he will allow for a berth, but will pot allow for a section. The Doctor was twelve days away, and his expenses averaged $12.50 per day. The following little bill of Mr. Dorman B. Eaton shows what the great reformer drinks when he is away from home: Dorman R Eaton to Tilly Hotel and Restaurant, Shrveeport, La., Dr. May 12 Room $3.00 May 12—Pitcher lemonade 30 May 13—Breakfast. 70 May 13—Dinner.............................. 85 May 13—Supper and gin and ale 1.09 May 13—Lemonade. .-«.... 20 May 14—Breakfast 50 May 14—Lunch 30 May 14—Supper 40 Total ..... ...,.$7.55 Mr. Charles Lyman, the Chief Examiner of the commission, is permitted by law to travel also. He is a very luxurious traveler. He never lets an opportunity pass to take a parlor-car or hire a carriage. Tho following is a little bill of his: June 23—Railroad fare, Washington to New York.., $6.50 June 23—Sleeping-car 2.00 June 23—Carriage to depot 50 June 24—Meals 3.00 June 24—Cab 50 June 25—Railroad fare from New York to New Haven >........................ 1.75 June 25—Parlor-car 50 June 25—Carriage from depot to postoffice and return. P.... 1.00 June 25—Railroad. New Haven to New York 1.75 June 25—Parkw-car 50 June 25—Cab, New York 1.00 "June 25 —Meals 3.25 June 26—Hotel, New York 2.00 June 26—Cab hire 75 June 26—Railroad to Newark 20 June 26—Carriage, denot to postoffice and return 1.00 June 26—Railroad, Washington 6.30 June 26—Parlor-ear 1.25 June 26—Meals 3.00 June 26—Carriuite to house 50 Total $37.25 Add oath. - 25 5 " - Grand total , ....$37.50 It would seem very doubtful whether there is any provision in law for the contingent expenses of the commission, and yet they have been very free in that kind of purchases. Sec. 4 of the law speaks of necessary station ery and other * articles, but says that the Secretary of the Interior must provide them. It would seem like a great stretch of their prerogative to make such purchases as are included in the long lisHfiat is submitted for the last quarter. The following are some of the items: “One Comstock’s Civil Service, $2; rotary self-inking stamp, $11.85; two copies Sessions Laws 1883-’B4, $1.50; Webster's Counting-House Dictionary, $2.80; remodeling three type-writers, $105; three American Almanacs, $1.50; Arithmetic and Algebra, <52.60; Dunglison’s Medical Science, $7; one volume American Cyclopedia, $6.” When Auditor Chenoweth gets through with these bills they will go to First Controller Durham, and by the time both these officials are done with them nothing but necessary expenses will remain.

OHIO.

A Great Republican Victory In the Buckeye State. [From the Chicago Tribune.] At the present writing the indications are that Foraker has been elected Governor of Ohio by 18,000 plurality. In spite of des-,: perate frauds in Cincinnati and unfavorable weather for Ute Republicans in all parts of the State, the result of two years ago has been reversed, and a stinging rebuae has been administered to the spoilsmen and party bosses of the State. The dupliciiy of St. Judas and Leonard was apparently well u derstood by the sincere temperance people of the State, whi e the nauseating subserviency of Hoadly co the saloon power must hate brought over to the Republican ranks many who would favor a prohibition amendment if it were to be submitted to the people as a distinct issue. The Prohibition vote in the State is estimated at 22,000, a large part, of which is drawn from Democratic loca ities. Doubtless many Democrats who did npt wish openly to bolt the party adopted this quiet method of voting in the air nnd at the same time expressing disgust with Hoadly's too flagrant coquetting with the rum power.

The legislative returns are not nearly complete, but enough have been received to permit a fair estimate that the Legislature will have fifteen Republican majority on joint ballot, insuring, the re-election of the Hon. John Sherman. The Republican triumph in Ohio may be ascribed to four distinct moving forces: . First —Public disgust at the magnificent pretensions and hollow performances of the “reform” administration in Washington, the sincerity of which was exhibited in the pardon of the ruffian Mullen by President Cleveland on the recommendation of Gov. Hoadly. Second—An exposure of the corrupt and degrading political alliance between the St Judas Prohibition cranks and the Democratic advocates of free rum. Third—The Germans came to their senses. They perceived that no attack was to be made upon their “personal liberty.” They realized that the effort to attach them permanently to the Democratic party on the issue of beer and boodle as opposed to patriotism and pure government was an insult to the Teuton race, and infinitely degrading to their own manhood and spit-respect. • Fourth—There was a healthy and vigorous reaction from the results of the election of 1883, which elevated the coal-oil syndicate to power in Ohio, and made Henry B. Payne Senator from that State by virtue of a corrupt coalition and an almost open traffic in the votes of the members of the Legislators. The boodle-bug was a little too conspicuous an object in the campaign. His phosphorescent glow reached too far and illuminated in too great a degree the dark transactions of those who introduced him into the politics of Ohio. Yesterday was a great day for the Republicans of Ohio and of the whole country. It was probably but a forecast of what is to happen in New York in November. The Republican party has gone out of power at Washington so that the money might b e counted and the books but how that everything has been found right, even to the cent that rolled undef the table, there is no reason why the party should not resume business at: the old stand in 1889. So long as Democrats hold office by the dishonest votes of seven Southern States we shall not believe that the Republican party has been put in the rear of the procession except as a temporary trial of its Christian graces and virtues.

“THE BLOODY SHIRT.”

Senator Sherman Not Afraid or Ashamed of It—Remedy for Wrongs in the South. [Report of speech in Cincinnati.] I say now that no Democrat in Hamilton County dare take issue on this question. These people have been deprived of their rights. And that is not all. They have not only been deprived of their rights, but these men. Democrats of the South, are now exercising political power based upon the six millions of colored people scattered over the South. There are thirty-eight members of Congress and thirty-eight electoral votes assigned under the Constitution to these six millions of colored people in the South; but they manage matters there so that these colored p'eople have no right to vote. They’re deprived of their votes, and then these Southern Democrats vote all this vast political power themselves; and by that means alone Grover Cleveland is now President of the United States; and but for this enormous crime James G. Blaine would now be our President, and John A. Logan would be our Vice President. What answer do they make to this indictment ? “The bloody shirt 1” And I don’t know but the time is coming, my friends, in this country, when the patriotic people of the Northern States must “wave the bloody shirt.” I say to you, although my years are pass- • ing away, and I look upon the faces of thousands of bright young men, I say to you that the Republican party of the United States will never submit to the ostracism that is now practiced upon these six millions of people. And when they ask me, “What will you do about it?” as Boss Tweed asked of the local authorities of New York, I say we will find a remedy; and the time is not far distant when that will be found. When we see Jefferson Davis, the arch-rebel of the country, extolled in the Senate of the United States as a patriot—and I was frowned upon with great severity when I denounced him as a conspirator and traitor—when we see the flag of our country, under which the boys in blue marched to many victories, lowered in sorrow at the death of Jake Thompson; when we see Fitzhugh Lee riding at the head of his Democratic cavalcade with the old flag of Gen. Pickett at Gettysburg, and with the saddle and bridle of Gen. Lee, marching with the rebel cavalcade through Virginia in order to arouse the rebel passions of that population; when we see men almost without number who have been rebels representing this great government of ours in various lands, in Cabinet positions, and holding high carnival in important offices, and Union soldiers and widows turned out to allow these Democratic partisans to come in, I tell you, my countrymen, the measure of my forgiveness has almost ceased to be a virtue. But they say, “What are you going to do about it?” And the only answer that Gov. Hoadly could give was that of “ What are you going to do about it? You have had power in this government: you did not find a remedy, and thereto e no such wrong exists.” Well, we did have the power, after the war was over, in a kind of a way. When the war was over, did we show any feeling of hostility or want of charity? No! No nation was more liberal to extend emancipation and to make easy their coming back to their relations to the General Government We do not want to oppress them now., No blood was shed. No property was confiscated. In all human history there is not another such example of kindness and forbearance to the party that had been overcome in war. But no sooner had General Lee taken the parole and surrendered to Grant at Appomattox than they went home, and at once tried to reduce their colored people to quasi-slavery. When that was resisted to some extent, and the measures of reconstruction were passed that secured civil and political rights to all people, then they resorted to other outrages, such as the Ku-klux. They met in secret places and armed and disguised themselves—some of them rebel soldiers—to frighten the Republicans, and in some cases committed murder. This was kept up for some time. General Grapfitred to suppress it Congress sent committees of investigation. We shw no 'remedy. None seemed to be at hand except to

again call out the boys in blue. That was the only remedy, and we did not propose to do that. We awaited for the coming of the time when the clearly acknowledged rights of these people would be yielded without further bickering. But we waited in vain, until finally the Democrats got possession of the .House, and these'Democrats associated with and combined with the Southern rebels to keep up this ostracism. Governor Hoadly asks, “What Vill you do about it?” I will tell you what we will do about it « There is in every one of these Southern States a Republican party now springing up, composed of rebel soldiers, white men and black men, and they are naw fighting the battles that ought to have been fought long ago. Governor Wise—Governor as I hope he Will be, unless they kill him before that time—is how fighting the battles of the Republican party in Virginia, with our principles engraved on his banner—liberty and equal rights to all, protection to American industries, the development of our industries, the diversity of our employments. This is our creed and motto. He is fighting that battle. Shall we desert him? Shall we Republicans of Ohio, by the election this fall, say, “We don’t care a cuss for you?.” Shall we join with the Democrats ? There is one remedy. The time is not far distant when in every one of these Southern States there will be a party that will redress this wrong. In Tennessee, at the last election, Judge Reid was almost elected. North Carolina will soon be carried by the Republicans, if they be given anything like fair play. In Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina, and every Southern State, there is a Republican majority under a fair election. The Republican party is a brave party—always brave. It has never undertaken to do anything yet that it has not accomplished, and it will accomplish this in due time if you will only stand by it.

SENATOR LOGAN AT BALTIMORE.

A Banquet Tendered the General by the Maryland Invincibles. [Baltimore special.] General John A. Logan was tendered a banquet at the Eutaw House by the Logan Invincibles of Maryland. About 125 people participated in the banquet. After the removal of the cloth General Logan 'was welcomed by William Marine, the Republican candidate for Clerk of the Court of Appeals. General Logan responded by returning thanks to the Logan Invincibles,- and paid a high compliment to the sociability, hospitality, energy, wealth, intelligence and growth of Baltimore. Of national affairs he said: This government is a republic in name, and will be until the people shall be educated up to a point where every citizen shall have a voice in the affairs of the nation without let or hindrance. He declared it the duty of every honest man, of whatever party, to speak and vote against all who tolerate fraud or violence to deprive an American citizen of his ballot and voting for his choice. The education of the illiterate was the great remedy to relieve the country from the disgrace now resting upon it because of the brutality exercised against the rights of American citizens in mahy parts of the Union. The Republican party attempted to enact appropriate measures for the education of these unable to educate themselves, but had been defeated by the votes of those who tried to destroy the Government and now dominate the Southern States—the party of State rights, free trade, secession, and relentless persecution. He asked if the present administration will use its influence in trying to remedy this evil or quietly encourage it, in order to control the solid South so that with their Northern allies the country can be kept within Democratic control. He spoke of the cry of the “bloody shirt,” and said it was all by Democrats, who made the cry upon every criticism of those who tried to destroy the Union. Speaking of the campaign in Virginia, he said he learned from the newspapers the Democratic candidate for Governor uses the saddle and bridle used by Robert E. Lee, and from the shouts one would suppose the saddle was the candidate and not the man who rides on it. If he should be elected, doubtless it will be by the influence of that saddle and bridle. ' A treason-stained saddle appears to be the lead' ig card. Remarks were also made by the Hons. S. B. Elkins, John L. Thomas, and others. It is amusing to note the comments of Democratic newspapers upon the return of the New York mugwumps to the Republican camp. The supreme contempt -which the Bourbons' have shown for their nondescript allies from the first is still maintained, and the departure appears to be hailed with real satisfaction. For this unhandsome and humiliating treatment the mugwumps have no one to blame but themselves. They are but suffering the consequences of such an unpardonable blunder as to suppose that the party with which they affiliated could ever sympathize with their fanciful ideas or respect their principles. To have joined iorces with a colony of monkeys would have been as reasonable as to form an alliance with Demoorats in the hope that party selfishness would be subordinated to the public good. A more humiliating spectacle than that now presented by the snubbed and ridiculed Eastern mugwumps was never afforded in the history of pol tics. They have eaten* of the husks; they have returned like ragged prodigals; but the fatted calf still frolics in its paddock, and no one thinks of slaying it— Exchange.

A first-class humbug might meet with some success, but a transparent sham excites the contempt of both parties. The people are not to be duped by a false pretense that is exposed in its true character every day. Democrats themselves are nauseated with the programme’of hypocritical pretensions. They want to* take the offices in a bold and open fashion, without requiring every appointee to continue- mj|ir>g and feeling like a sneak. The Offensive partisanship humbug has itself become offensive to the intelligence of the people, and a large majority of both parties would be glad to have the shibboleth put on the retired list.— Chicago Tribune.

RAILROAD HORROR.

Collision Between Southern and Western Trains Near . Jersey City. Six People Instantly Killed and a Large Number Seriously - Wounded.

[Jersey City (N. J.) dispatch.] When the fast express on the Pennsylvania Railroad, leaving Jersey City at 8:15 to-night rounded the curve near the Meadow coal bridge, about five miles out the engineer saw through the thick fog the outlines of a car on the track only a few hundred feet ahehd. The express was running at the rate of forty-five miles an hour. The engineer applied the air-brakes as quickly as he could and whistled the danger signal, but his attempt was in vain. The engine struck the car with terrific force, telescoping it and throwing the fragments in every directiour — The panting engine had scarcely stopped when the train bound east, leaving Newark on the Lehigh Valley Road at 8:10, dashed into the forward end of the immigrant. Engineer Owen Hall, peeping through the fog, saw the wreck. He did everything in his power to stop his train on its deathbearing course, but it was too late. With an awful crash the Newark train rushed upon the overturned car and was thrown down the embankment. Over and over rolled the cars of human freight, and upon the night air rose the horrible shrieks of the dying. Dark outlines of the train lying wrecked in the valley, and the cars rolling one on top of the other, presented a ghastly picture. When the shock had passed the dazed passengers left the trains as best they could and huddled together, too startled to'speak. The first to recover was the engineer of the Jersey City train. He gathered the frightened people together and ordered them to render all possible assistance to the injured. All this time the erics of those wholly dr partially covered by the wreck made the uninjured turn pale with terror. The engineer and his willing assistants were powerless to aid some of the poor creatures, while their united efforts were sufficient to drag some of the bruised from under the wreck. When the first wounded man was taken from the debris everybody cried for a physician, but in the 'whole crowd of willing workers not one physician could be found. At 9:3ff o’clock a' relief train was sent to the Wreck from Jersey City, loaded with doctors, reporters, beds, food, etc. As the relief train neared the scene of the disaster crowds of men and women could be seen through the heavy nrst returning on foot to the city. When the medical staff reached the wreck the scene was indeed heartrending. Mixed in a huge mass lay the two trains, while for hundreds of feet around was piled timber of all shapes. Beside the track lay the Jersey City train. The engine was tipped over the right embankment, and in a long, grotesque line behind it lay the derai ed cars. To the left of this train, reduced to a mass of splinters, were the remains of what appeared to be an immigrant caboose. The car was shivered to atoms and underneath lay some of the mangled bodies of the dead and dying. Stretchers were immediately furnished by the relief train, and the injured and dead were carried into the baggage car. It was a horrible sight. The first body to be removed was the headless trunk of a woman. The feet and limbs, with the clothing torn completely from them, protruded from the splinters of the caboose. Strong hands soon cleared the debris from above the mangled form, and it was taken to the car. The next was the form of a man with his head torn completely from his body. Then t ollowed two or three men who were buried completely out of sight under the dead bodies of their companions. They were bruised and broken, and completely saturated with blood. They were moaning pitifully, but subsequently recovered sufficiently to give their history. During all this time the passengers who had escaped kept up their search for the bodies of their friends. It soon appeared that the only ones injured were from the emigrant caboose, which lay splintered between the engine of the Jersey City train and the last cars of the Lehigh Valley. All attention, therefore, was being bestowed on the emigrants, when low moans were heard coming from under the engine of the Lehigh train. The eager rescuers rushed quickly down the embankment, and there lay the insensible form of Owen Hail, the engineer of the. wrecked train. His legs were held down by the heavy framework of the massive engine. Willing hands soon relieved the poor fellow, and his injuries were attended to. In a few moments groans were heard from the Lehigh wreck again, and the bleeding face of Fireman Stewart Bowers could be seen through the long meadow grass in which lay the engine truck. His skull was fractured, and the blood trickled down his upturned face. With difficulty he was dragged to the relief car, and it was found that he had sustained internal injuries. The poor fellow exhibited wonderful energy and pluck. He sat up during the examination, groaning terribly, but thoroughly conscious of his surroundings. The people known to be dead are described as follows: An unknown man about forty years of age. His hea'i was completely torn from his body, and both his arms were broken. Unknown woman about twenty-five years of age. Her Lead wis severed from her neck, and her body was covered with bruises. Unknown bov about tw Ive yews of ago. Roth bis legs were broken and his skull was fractured. Unknown girl about eighteen years old. Her skull was fractured. UlCna Arene-is, 35 years of ace; on her way to her father at Madison, Wis. Both her lees were broken and her skull was fractured. She was brought to the depot alive, but d:ed five minutes after reaching St Francis Hospital. The wounded are: Marinus Klinger, head and bodv bruised. Ch.istian Wyagbretsen, of Hofdwtadt. E. V. L’rbero.h. conductor of the emigrant train, -arm broken. Stewart A Bowers, fireman of the Lehigh Valley train. South asten. Pa., scalp wound. Owen Hall, engineer of th? Lehich Valley train, Easton, Pa., 35 years, fracture of <he foot ana bruises. Three men were taken to St. Francis Hospital unconscious. Ralph Curry, 29. internal injuries. Christian G. Bolsted, bound for Minneapolis, Minn. • Laura Redesen, intending to join her husband at Norwood. Iowa; will die. It is impossib e now to obtain a full list of the wounded.

ITEMS.

A German statistician finds that there are 1,000,000 blind persons in the world. A Georgia couple were married in the graveyard, with a tombstone for the’altar. The mane of a mare rescued from a burning stable at . Manchester, N. H., turned white. .■ ■ Sam Small, the converted humorist, is assisting Sam Jones in his revival meetings in the South. The town of Brooklyn, Conn., has voted SSOO toward a monument to Gen. Putnam,

An English Railway Train.

The first impression which an American who is experienced in railroad travelling in his own country derives from the exterior aspect of an English train is unfavorable. The cars, as he must necessarily call them, seem to be small; they lack, apparently, the weight and solidity of the American passenger-coach;. the compartments are narrow, the ceilings low. the ventilation apparently doubtful. They stand upon two, three, or more pairs of gaunt high wheels, to the axles of which their springs ate directly geared. He misses the little independent vehicle, the truck, or bogie, with its four or six small, compact, solid-looking, wideflanged wheels, which sustains each end of the American car —that rolling gear which looks so strong, so adapted to inequality of rail or curve, so resourceful against disaster, and so complete in its equipment The cars are smaller—there is no doubt of it They are narrower and they are shorter; and to the American eye they look even shorter than they really are, because they have no projecting platform at the ends, no overhanging roof or hood, but are buckled close up to each other, and their contact controlled by small metal buffers, the springs of which allow a play of from eighteen inches to two feet and a half between car and car. The Millor platform, the Janney coupler, the link and pin—of '.ll the familiar devices of the United States there is not one to be seen. The brakes? None visible. Nor, for the matter of that, a brakesman. This in* fiuential and numerous person has no existence in England. There is not even a rudimentary type of him. That you do not find him is the first stern intimation you receive that in English railroading there are no autocrats. The wheels are fitted with brakes, however, and the trained eye nothes a rubber hose connection between the c (Triages, quite different in its application to that known at home, but which nevertheless bqtokens the air-brake. He takes account of the distinctions of class, and reflects upon his country’s veiled progress in that regard in the matter of parlor cars and limited ex-press-trains. Then he find that there is no baggage-master to waft the volatile Saratoga to its doom, as his own newspapers would express it. There is perhaps a luggage van or two, or there are in the carriages themselves luggage compartmens, according to the way in which the train is made up, the length of journey it is to take, or the custom of the particular line under observation. His final contemplation is perhaps devoted to the engine, and if he has ever given any pf his attention to the American locomotive, it fills him with a deep concern. He recallsjthe imposing splendor of the latter, its comfortable and lofty cab of ailed and polished wood, its gay brass bell, the soul-stirring whistle, the noble head-light and the cow-destroying pilot, Che great cinder-consuming smokestack (unless it be a hard-coal burner, in which case that feature shrinks to moderate proportions), the powerful drivers and compact cylinders, the eccentric connecting-rods, and all. its parts radiant with the glitter of polished steel or burnished brass, or decked with appropriate vermillion or emerald green. In all of these matters the English locomotive compares with it much as a lawn-mower does with a New York fire-engine. It is a humble, awkward green, or monochromatic machine. It has neither polish nor decorat on about it, There is no cab. The engineer and his fireman—that is to' say, the engine-driver and his stoker, as they are styled in England—perform their duties with only such shelter as 1 is afforded by a board screen in front of them, pierced by two round apertures filled with stout glass, technically known as “spectacles” The smoke-stack is short and thick; there is an unsightly green hump on the back of the boiler; the cylinders are under the front of the latter instead of on each side before the drivers; the wheels are all large, and the body of the engine is perched high up above them, and looks top-heavy and dangerous The whole thing is rigid and stiff-looking, and to the observer who has had to do with the external aspects of locomotives it is unprepossessing and unlovely. The practical American engineer whistles thoughtfully as he surveys it, and wonders -ter-himself how long it would be before he would ditch his train if he bad to run on a new Western railroad with such an engine. Where would he be on a sharp curve, or how would such running-gear adapt itself to anunvenly ballasted track? The low center of gravity o f the American locomotive, the weight distributed well down between the wheels, the play of the small broad flanges under the pilot truck, and the external gearing of the drivingwheels, all give the American engine an appearance of stability which impresses not merely the layman, but also the expert— Harper’s Magazine.

Arctic Explorations.

From 1496 to 1857 there were 134 voyages and land journeys undertaken by governments and explorers of Europe and America to investigate the unknown region around the north pole. Of these, sixty-three went to the northwest, twenty-nine via Behring Strait, and the rest to the northeast or due north. Since 1857 there have been the notable expeditions of Dr. Hayes, of Captain Hall, those of Nordenskjold, sent by the Swedish Government, and others sent by Germany, Russidf and Denmark; three voyages made by James Lamont, of the Royal Geographical Society, England, at his own expense; the expeditions of Sir George Nares, of Leigh Smith, and that of the ill-fated Jeanette; the search expeditions of the Tigress, the Juniata, and those sent to rescue Lieutenant Greely; farther, all the expenditions fitted out under the auspices of the Polar expedition—in which the Greely expedition was included—and a number of minor voyages, making a total of-some sixty exploring journeys in these twenty-seven years.— lnterOcean. Notwithstanding the depression in business circles, the business of the thief seems tv be picking up.— Puck. Onk county in Kansas, Sedgwick, is expected to produce 9,000,000 bushels of corn this year.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—— ' I ■ ■ j o, * —Quails are numerous in the southern part of the State. • —The Floyd County Jail has been repaired at a cost of $2,000. —New Albany’s police made only twentynine aneste in September. —Mail messenger service at Monterey, Pulaski County, has been discontinued. t— Stephen Hamilton,well known in Mancie, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for criminal assault —lsaac Windle, a farmer living near Shawnee Mound, Tippecannoe County, has received a swarm of bees direct from Italy. —While celebrating the Republican victory in Ohio, near Lafayette. John Boyd was killed by the premature discharge of a cannon. —The street-car line in South Bend is doing a very large business—far exceeding the expectations of even its most sanguine originators. —Mrs. Eva Watson, of Greenburg. wants a divorce from her husband because he sealed her lips with court plaster, in order to stop her talking. —Matilda Kiefer, 24 years old, died at New Albany recently. She was one of three sisters born at the same time. The other two are also dead. —Riley Reid and Charles Icc, sons of respectable citizens of Rochester, were sentenced to the jpenitentiary for one year for robbing a freight car recently. —Every dwelling-house in Vevay is occupied, andfiftaen more cou’d be rented immediately, the new chair and crib factories have added to the population. . —The tobacco parade fn Louisville was taken advantage of by six pair of Kentucky lovers, who slipped across the river and were married at Jeffersonville. —Sterley Caruthers, a hero of the Modoc war, who works at the furniture factory at Shelbyville, had two fingers of his left hand cut off in the jointing machine. —While mixing mortar at Lafayette, George Barkley was stricken with paralysis, and, falling into a bed of hot lime, received such burns as caused death in a short time. —lt is stated in Indianapolis that Judge Gresham has decided to go back to New Albany for permanent residence, preferring that city to either Indianapolis or Chicago.

—ln the heart of a slab of limestone, broken at Lafayette, a petrified sea crawfish was found measuring eighteen inches in length. The specimen has been sent to Purdue .University. —Frank Delamatar, a wealthy butcher of LOgansport, was sentenced to the penetentiary for one year for cattle stealing. Delamatar has made a business of taking up cattle promiscuously and butchering them. —La Porte is moving in the proper way to have her chain of lakes connected by a navigable canal. It is estimated that $25,000 will be needed to accomplish the work, and committees have been appointed to solicit subscriptions, —Abraham Brown, aged 20 years, son of Joseph Brown, living'a feW miles from Lafayette, was hunting squirrels with a shotgun loaded with No. 2 shot. He had rested the breech of the gun on a block of wood which held the hammer, and discharged the gun, the contents entering his abdomen just above the pelvis, and ranging upward. The wound must necessarily '■ prove fatal. —Mr. Charles Foster, of New Albany, who was recently appointed United States Consul General to Calcutta, intimated to the Department of State that he would prefer to take a consular position in Europe, even at a smaller salary, and was, therefore, transferred to Elberfeld, Germany, and Benjamin F. Bonham, of Oregon, was appointed Consul General to Calcutta in his place. —A tragedy was enacted near South Bend. Thomas Jetton and William Snyder lived bn adjoining farms. Some time ago they got into some trouble about pome wheat Later a sheep belonging to Jetton got with Snyder’s sheep, and the latter kept it some days, when he brought it to Jetton’s premises, and approached the latter near his house. A controversy began, and one word led to another, until they both-be-came enraged. Snyder called Jetton a liar and at the same time struck at, him with a heavy log chain. Jetton instantly pulled a revolver and shot his assailant five times. The wounded man died shortly after the shooting. Jetton then hitched up his horse and drove to South Bend and gave himself up. —President Smart, of Purdue University, has made glad the hearts of the Greek fraternity members by giving the consent of the faculty to the organization of such societies at the college. Some years ago the then President, E. E. White, prohibited students belonging to or attending the meetings of Greek societies. The result was a long and bitter contest in the courts, culminating in the Supreme Court, and a decision by that body that had to be interpreted afterward by an explanation of what was intended. The import of ths decision was that the faculty could not keep out students op the ground that they were Greeks; but at the same time it gave the right to say what rules should be enforced there. President Smart now givesconsent to the formation of the fraternity societies at the college. —The boy who carries a special-delivery letter for eight cents and pays ten cents street-car fare is rapidly coming io the conclusion that he is not laying the foundation of a colossal fortune. The system will teach the youthful carriers a great financial lesson, if it serves no other purpose.—lndianapolis Journal. —An Indiana farmer couldn’t get any of the neighbors to sit on the fence with him and talk horse and whittle at a shingle, and so he went and drowned himself. .