Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1888 — Page 2

fjbe ItcjwMkatt, -Gao. K. Mawbaia, Pobliaher. RENSSELAER. ■ , INDIANA

Whether tho character of. the present immigration in the United States is equal to that of a decade ago is a matter of immense importance. In the State of New York the present proportion of nativeborn paupers cared for in alms houses is Ito every 168. Of out-door paupers the proportion of foreigners is far greater. Of the insane in asylums the ratio is 42 l H ' r sent greater of foreign Ixjrn, Of convicts committed for all grades of otlenses,then“ were in 1886 three times as many of foreign birth as there were native born. This certainly goes to show fliat in spite of all precautions a large number of criminals are crowded in upon us. It is not improbable that European governments will wink at all such transactions as far as possible. It seems to la 1 impoasibletto thoroughly sift out at this end of the route. •

Prof. Mvsroe Smith tells us, in Political Science Quarterly, some most astonishing facts. Of all the population of Massachusetts only 855,491 were l>orn of native parents, while 919,869 had foreign parents and 119,741 were Ixirn of mixed parentage. That is Massachusetts is in fact a foreign State, for 53.53 jier cent of her blocaUis foreign. “Thera eight cities and tows in the Commonwealth in which there is an excess of persons of foreign parentage. These towns have 58 per cent of the population, while the remaining 280 towns, which contain a majority of native-born parentage, represent only 41 per rent of the whole." That is, our foreign influx gravitates into towns and cities, and is largolv possessed of the herd instinct. Although in Massachusetts there is tin* additional attraction of great factories, which oi>en to vast numbers of foreign operatives, what is true of Massachusetts is equally true of one or two of the They are essentially foreign in population. ,

BLAINE WILL NOT RUN.

HE SETS ALL RUMORS FOREVER * AT REST. H« Writ** from Puri*, Declaring that He Could Net Accept the Nomination Under Any Circumstance*—A Clear Withdrawal. The New York Tribune of the 30th, publishes the following letter from Mr. Blaine: Paris, May 17, ’BB. Whitelaw Reid, Esq., Editor New York Tribune. My Dear Sir: Since my return to Paris from Southern Italv on the Bth inst., 1 have learned (what I did not believe) that my name may yet be presented to fheNational Convention as a candidate for the presidents! nomination of the Republican party. A single phrase ol my letter of January 25 from Florence (which was decisive of everything I had the personal power to decide) has been treated by many of my most valued' friends as not absolutely conclusive in ultimate and possible contingencies. On _ the other hand friends equally devoted and disinterested have construed my letter (he it should be construed ) to be an unconditional withholding of my name from the National convention. They have in consequence given their support to eminent gentlemen who are candidates so Chicago nomination, some oT whom would not, 1 am sure, have consented to assume that position if I had desired to represent the party in the presidential contest of 1888. If I should now, by speech or by silence, by commission or omission, permit my name, in any event, to come before the convention, I should incur the re-

proach of being uneandid with those who have always been candid with me. I speak, therefore, because I am not willing to remain in a doubtful attitude. I am hot willing to be the cause of misleading a single man among the millfbns who have given me their suffrages and their confidence. lam not willing that even one of my faithfuri-iipporters in the past should think me capable of paltering double sense with my words. Assuming that the Presidential nomination by any chance be offered to me, I eould not accept it without leaving in the minds of thousands of iliese men the impression that I had, not beemfree from indirection, and, therefore, I could not accept at all. The misrepresentations of malice have no weight, but the just displeasure of friends I could not patiently endure.

Republican victory, the prospects of which grow brighter every day. can be imperiled only by lack of unity in council or by acrimonious contest over men. The issue of protection is incalculably stronger and greater than any man. for it concerns the prosperity of the present , and of generations yet to come. Were it possifele-for every voter in the republic to see for himself the condition and recompense of labor in Europe, the party j of free trade in the United States wenldj not receive the support of one wage-1 worker between the two oceans. It may j not be directly in our power as! philanthropists elevate the —Em opean laborFfft)tit’itWill he a lasting stigma upon our statesmanship if we permit the American laborers to be forced __down toi the EuropeanivveL And in-the end the rewards of labor everywhere WiU be rivahced if we steadily refuse to lower the standard at home. Yours very sincerely,

JAMES G. BLAINE.

A CROSS WE MUST BEAR.

tHESCARS AND THE AGONIES OF CRUCIFIXION, Sermon Delivered i»t Brooklyn TnborwnMe on Snernmoutnl by , the Kev. T. l>e Witt Tnlmage. Dr,, Talinfge took for his text the passage: “Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after me can not l>e mv disciple.’ —Luke xiv., 27. He said: The cross was a gibbet on w hich criminals were put to death. It was sometimes made in the shape of the letter T, sometimes in the shape of the letter X, sometimes in the shajK* of the letter I—a simple upright;, sometimes two cross pieces placed against a perpendicular bar so that upon the lower cross piece the Criminal partially sat. Hut, whatever the style of cross, it was always disgraceful and always agonizing. But in all the forest of crosses on the hills and in tile valleys of the earth -there is one cross that attracts more attention than any other. It is not higher t han the others, it is not made out of different wood, there is nothing peculiar in the notch at w hich the two pieces are joined, and as to the scene, they witnessed crucifixions every, few w eeks, so that I see a reckless man walking about tiie hill and kicking carelessly aside a skull, and wondering who the villain was whir hail so flat and misshapen a head; and here is another skull, and there on the. hillside is another skull. Indeed, the Bible says it was “a place of skulls.” But about the victim on one of these crosses all ages are crying: “Who is He? Was He a man? Was He a Clod? Was He man and God?” Through the darkness of that gloomy day I come close up enough to tde cross to see who it is. It is Jesus.- • How did lie come there? Had He come up on the top of the hill to look off upon the beautiful landscape or upon a brilliant sunset? No. He came there ill and exhausted. People sometimes wonder why Uhrist expired so quickly on the cross — in six or seven hours—while other victims- have been on tho cross for fortyeight hours before life was extinct. . I will tell you the reason. He was exhausted when He came there. He had been scourged. We are horrified at the cruelties of the whipping* post, but those cruelties were mercy as compared with the scourging of Jesus Uhrist. But that, my-frienthtywas beforrUhrist had started for, Calvary. That was only t lie whipping. Are you ready for‘your journey to the cross? The carpenters have split the timber inky two-pieces. They-" are htyjVv. 'u# they are Tong pieces, for one of them must be fastened deep down into the earth iest the struggling of the victim upset the structure. They put this timber on the shoulder of Christ very gradually, first, to see whether He can stand it, and after they find He can stand it, they put the whole weight upon Him. Forward, now, to Calvary! The hooting and the veiling mob follow on. Under the weight of the cross, being weary and sick, He stumbles and falls, and they jerk at His robe, indignant that He should have stumbled and fallen, and they cry: ,f Get up, get up!” Christ,mitring one hand ou tlie ground and the other on the cross, rises, looking into the face of Mary, Ilis mother, for sympathy; hut they tell her to stand hack, it is no place for a woman -“.Stand back and stop this crying.” Christ moves on with His burden upon His shoulders, and there is ahoy that passes along with him-r-a boy holding a mallet and a few nails. I wonder what they are for. Christ moves on until the burden is so great He staggers and falls flat into the dust and faints dead away, and a rutfiian puts his foot on Him and shakes Him as he would a dead dog, while another ruffian looks down at Him, wondering whether He lias fainted away; or whether He is only pretending to faint away, and with jeer and contempt indescribable says; “Fainted, have you? Fainted! get up! get on!” Now, thev have arrived at the foot of the hill. Off with His clothes. Shall that loathsome mob look upon the unrobed body of Christ? —Yes. The commanding officers sav: “Unfasten the girdle, take off the coat, strip Him.” The work is done. But bring back the coat, for here are the gamblers tossing up coin on the ground, saying: “Who shall have the coat?” One ruffian savs: “I have it, I have it—it is mine!” He rolls it up and puts it under his arm, or examines it to see what fabric it is made of. Then they put the cross upon the ground! and they Stretch Christ upon it, and four or five men hold Him down while they drive the spikes home, at every thump a groan, a groan! Alas! the hour passes on and the time comes when they must crucify Him.

Christ lias only one garment left now —a cap, a cap of thorns. No danger that it will fall off, for the sharp edges have punctured the temples, and it is sure and fast. One ruffian takes hold of one end of the short beam of the cross, and another ruffian takes hold of the other end of the short heiun of the cross, and another ruffian puts his arm under the waist of Christ, and another rutfian takes hold of the end of the long beam of the cross, and altogether they move on until they come to the hole digged in the earth," and with an awful plunge it jars down with its burden of woe. It is not the pictufe. of a Christ, it is not the statue of Christ, as you some? times see in a Cathedral; but it is the body of a bleeding, living, dying Christ. Thev sometimes say He had five wounds, but they have counted wrong. Two wounds for'the hands," two wounds for the feet, one wound for the side, they say, five wounds. No, they have missed the worst and, they have missed the most. Did you ever see the bramble out of which that crown of thorns was made? I saw one on a Brooklyn ferry-boat, in the hands of a gentleman who had justreturned from Palestine, a bramble just like that out of which the crown of thorns was made. O! how cruel and" liow stubborn were the thorns. And

! cap pl-thorns w,asput upon,, j Christ, and it was pressed down upon j Him, not five wounds, but ten, twenty, Ithirty- I can not count them. There were three or fourabsenees that made that scene worse. First, there was -Lhe absence >of water.- - The climate "wnsr hot, the fever, the inflammation, the nervous prostration, the gangrene had seized upon Him, and he terribly wanted water. His wounds were worse than gunshoffractures” and yet no water. A t Turk in the thirteenth, century was crucified on the banks of a river so that the sight of the water might tantalize him. And O! how the thirst of Christ must have tantalized as He thought of the Euphrates and the Jordan and the

Amazon and all the fountains of earth and heaven poured out of His own hand. They offered him an intoxicating draught made out of wine and myrrh, but he declined it. He wanted to die sober. No water. Then, my friends, there was the absence of light., Darkness always exasperates touhles. The hours passed on and it is twelve o’clock of the Savior’s suffering, and it is one o’clock, and it is two o’clock, and it is almost three o’clock. Take the- last look at that suffering face; wan and pinched,* the purple lips drawn against the teeth, thte eyes red with weeping and sunken as though- grief had pushed them back, blackness under the lower lid, the whole bodv adroop and shivering with the last chill, the breath growing feebler and feebler and until He gives one long, deep, last sigh. He Is dead. V 0! my soul, He is dead. Can you tell why? Was He a fanatic' dying for a principle that did not amount to anything? Was he a man infatuated? .No: to save your soul from sin, and mine, make eternal life possible He died. There had to be a substitute for sjn. Who shall it bei’ r “Let it be me,” said Christ; “let it fee me.” You understand the meaning of that word substitution. You were drafted for the last war; some one took your place, marched your march, suffered your wounds, and died at Gettysburg. Christ comes to us while we are fighting our battle with sin and death and hell, and He is.©ur Substitute. He marches our march, fights our battle, suffers our wounds, and dies our death. Substitution! Substitution! How do you feel in- regard to that scene described in the text and in the region around about the text? Are your sympathies aroused, or are you so dead in sin and so abandoned hv reason of your tiansgessions that you can look upon all that tearless anil unmoved? No, no;,there are thousands of people here this morning who can say in the depths of their soul; “No, no, no; if Jesus endured that-, and all that for me, I ought to love Him. 1 must love Him, I will love Him, I do love Him, II oW are you going to test your love; are you willingto bear Ilis? You say,“yes! Just tell me what I have to do and I’ll do it. lam ready to carry any cross.” Suppose I should ask you at the close of a religious service to rise up announcing yourself on the Lord’s side—could votf do it? “Oh, no!” you say, “I have a shrinking and a sensitive nature, and it fore a large assemblage announcing myself on the Lord’s side.”. Just as I feared. You cannot stand that cross. The first one that is offered you you reject, Christ carried a mountain, Christ carried a world for von, and you cannot lift an ounce for Him*. But here is a man whose cross will he to announce among his business assoeb ates to-morrow morning on Exchange that he has begun a new life; that while he wants to -be faithful in his worldly duties, he is living for another world, and he ought to advise all those who are his associates, so far as lie can influence them, to begin with him the Christian life. Could you do that, my brother? “O, no,” yousay; “not just that. I think religion is religion and business is business, and it would be impossible for me to recommend the Christian religion in places of worldly business.”... Just as I feared. There is a second cross offered you. and you cannot carry it. Christ lifted a mountain for yon; you cannot lift an ounce /or Him. . .There is some one whose cross will.be to present religion in the home circle. Would you dare to kneel down and pray if your brother and sister were looking at you? , Coulcl you ask a blessing at the tea-table? Could you take the Bible and gather your.family around you, and read of Christ, and heaven, and your immortal soul? Could you. then, kneel and pray for a blessing on your household? "Oh.” von say, “not exact lv that. I couldn't quite do that, because I have a very quick temper, and if I professed religion and tried to talk religion in liiy household, and then after that I should lose my temper they would scoff’ at me and ~say, “You are a pretty Christian!” So you are cowed down, and their sarcastn -keeps ymt ~~oiTt~ of Heaven andaway from Christ, when, under God, you ought to take vour whole family into the Kingdom. Christ lifted a mount-ain-lifted a world—for you; you can not lift an ounce for Him. 1 see how it .is; you want to be favorable to religion, you want to support Christian institutions,, you like to be associated with those who love Jesus Christ; but as to taking a positive step on this subject, you can not—you can not, and my text, like a gate of a hundred bolts, bars you away from peace on earth and glory in heaven. I tell you these things this morning because, my dear friends, I want to show you how light the cross is that we have to carry compared with that which Christ carried for us. You have not had the flesh torn off for Christ’s sake in carrying your cross. He fainted dead away under "His cross. You have not carried the cross until it fetched the blood. Under His there was a pool of carnage that plashed the horses’ fetlocks, i You have friends to sympathize with vou in carrying the cross! Christ trod the winepress of God’s wrath alone, alone! The cross that you and I ought to carry represents only a few days or a few years of trial. The cross that Christ carried for us had compressed into it the agonies of eternity. _ There has some one come here to-day whom you have not observed. He did not come through the* front door: He did not come down any of these aisles; yet I know. He is here. He is from the Fast, the far East. He cpmes with blistered foot, and with broken heart, and cheeks red, not with * health, but with blood temples. I take hold of His coat and I “It does not seem to fit Thee,” “No,” He says, “it is not mine; it is borrowed; it does not belong to Me now. For My vesture did they cast lots.” And I say to Him: “Thine eyes are red as though from loss of sleep.” He says: “Yes, the Son of man had not where to

lay His head.” And 1 touch the log on His back and I say: “Why earnest Thou this? "Ah'” He says, “that is a erossT: cArrv for thee and for the sins of the whole world. That is a cross. Fall into line, march on with Me in procession, take vour smaller crosses and your lighter bunlens, and join Me in this march to Heaven." And'we'join that” procession with our smaller crosses and our lighter burdens, and Christ looks back and He sees some are halting because they can ..notewdare tlie and with a voice which has in it majesty and omnipotence. Hc crics until alt the earth trembles: “Whosoever doth hot bear his cross, and come after Me, can not be My disciple.” V Oh! my brethren, my sisters—for I do not speak professionally, I speak as a

brother would speak to a brother or sister —my brother, can you not bear a cross if at last you can wear a crown? Come now, let us divide off; Who is on the ~Li>rd’s side? Who is ready to turn his back upon the Lamb of God" that taketh away the sins of the world? j A Homan Emperor said to a Greek architect: “You build me a coliseum, a grand coliseum, and if it suits me I will crown you in the presence ©fall the people, and I will make a grand day of festival oh vour account.” The Greek architect did his work, did it magnificently, planned the building, looked after its construction. The building was done. The day for opeffing . arrived. In the coliseum were The Emperor and the (ireck architect. The Emperor arose amid the plaudits of a vast assemby, and said: “We have gathered here to-day to open this coliseum and to honor the Greek architect. It is a great day for the Homan Empire. Let this building be prosperous, and let honor be put upon the Greek architect. Oh! we must have a festival to-day. Bring out those Christians and let us have them put to death at the mouth of the lions.” The Christians were put into the center of the amphitheater. It was to be a great celebration in their destruction. Then the lions, hungry and three-fourths starved, were let out from their dens in the side of the amphitheater, and they came forth with mighty spring to destroy and rend the Christians, and all the galleries shouted: “Huzza, huzza! Long live the Emperor!” Then the Greek architect arose in one of the galleries and shouted until the vast assemblage all heard him: “I, teo, am a Christian!” and they seized him in their fury and flung him to the wild beasts,until his body, bleeding and dead. Was tumbled over and over again in the dust of the amphitheater.

Could you have done that for Christ? Could you, in a vast assemblage, all of whom hated Christ, have said: “1 am a Christian,” or, “I want to ben Christian?” Would you have had the ten-thousandth part of the enthusiasm and the courage of the Greek architect? Nay. I ask you another question: Would you in an assemblage where they are nearly all Christians —in ah assemblage avast mnltitude of whom love Clfrist and are willing to live, and if need be, to die for Him—would you dare to say: “I am a Christian,” or, “I want to be a Christian?” Would you say in the presence of the friends of Christ, “Are you for Christ, are you against him?” The destinies of seems as if the last day had come and we were gathered for the reckoning. “Behold, He corneth with the clouds, and eveyv eye shall see Him.” What T say to one I say to all: What are you doing for Christ? What are you bearing for (’hrist? When the Scottish chieftains wanted to raise an a: my they would make a wooden cross, and then set it on fire, and carry it with other crosses they had, through the mountains, through the Highlands and among the peopfe, and as they waved the cross the people would gather to the standard and fight for Scotland. So to-day I come out with the cross of the Son of God. It is a flaming cross —flaming with suffering; flaming with glory. I carry it out among all the people. Who will be on the Lord’s side? Who will gather to the standard of Emmanuel? Across, across, a cross! “Whosoever doth not bear his cross and follow after Me, can not, can not beMydisciple.” ■ ' ' ‘

WASHINGTON ITEMS.

The river and harbor bill as reported from the Senate committee, Monday, appropriates $21,388,783, an increase of sl,783,000 over the House hill. The public debt statement shows a decrease of the debt during May of $1,618,605,96, The total cash in the treasury is $606,971,049,03; net cash surplus, $94,706,617.08. Mr. Taulbee, of Kentucky, a Demo crat, Friday announced that he did not propose to be bound by the party caucus. Atthepropertinae he woukl move an amendment to the tariff bill, putting lumber on the dutiable list at to per cent, ad valorem. There is not much probability of anything being done with Colonel Steele’s bill to equalize the bounties of soldiers and sailors at the present setsion. The military committee have taken no action thereon, although it has been under consideration. It proposes to allow each enlisted man eight and one-third dollars a month for all the time served in the war.

The Senate committee op the judiciary failed again Friday to reach a conclusion in regard to the nomination of Melville W. Fuller to be Chief Justice. It is understood that further information from Chicago is awaited. The most serious of the clrarges brought against Mr. Fuller are those from Mr. Dunlevy, of Chicago. They allege that the clerk of the court and Mr. Fuller were jury commissioners in 18§1, and that Mr. Fuller drew a jury before which a cage in which he was himself heavily interested was tried. The result, according to Dunlevy, was a verdict for Fuller and the consequent recovery of a large and valuable tract of swamp land. The committee has telegraphed for a transcript of the records and will await its receipt, A small 1 Democratic caucus was held Wednesday night on the the Mills bill. Mr. Springer introduced a new resolution binding all Democrats to vote in the House for the bill as it comes from the caucus, and only for such amendments as are preeented in the House by the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee. The North Carolina men said they wanted an entire repeal of the tobacco tax, "and they also served notice upon the caucu&that the California memto vote for a proposition .to remove the tax on fniit brandy —let it come from the caucus refused to include tlmt-provision in the bill. The resolution was wiliF drawn. It was then determined to call up the bill after the legislative bill had been disposed of. Before adjourning the Springer resolution was passed.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

New wool is being marketed Ft. Wayne will again bore for gas. Evansville is seventy-nine years old. The barbers of Ft. Wfjrne have organized. 1 <• y ■.. A new style of bug infests Elkhart elm trees. Chicken thieves and hog cholera trouble Scottsville, Bartholomew county. • -Several hundred men are now hunting on Bean Blosssom Creek, Brown county. j The body of an unknown man was found in the Ohio river near Rising Sun, Thursday. Harmony Lodge of Odd Fellows at Ft. Wayne has the finest paraphernalia of any lodge in the State. The suit of Montgomery county against Auditor Goben to recover SIO,OOO, terminated in the official’s favor. The temperance revival at Seymour under the direction of Thomas E. Murphy has assumed mammoth proportions.

Elder E. P. Ewing, the Christian church at Crawfordsville, has been offered the office of State Evangelist, and he will probably accept. Lawrence Steerstetter, a saloon keeper of Ramsay Station, Harrison county, has been flogged by White Caps for selling liquor to minors. Lafayette Jamison, the Monon’s agent and operator at Monticello, is only fourteen years old, but has,an astonishingly good head for business. Mirage phenomena are reported frequently at Michigan City by vessel men. A Chicago woman saw Indiana’s chief port last Sunday from her window. Charles Baden, a German farmer, aged seventy, who has lived ip Hamilton county for many years, has fallen heir to an estate of $9,000,000 in Germany. William fynith was found dead in the Ludlow Thomas school house, Montgomery county, Friday. When last seen, one week ago, he had S2OO in his pocket, -and it is feared drenvag foully (fealt with." The w eavers in King & Field’s wool-en-mills, at LaPorte, struck on Saturday night, because of a cut in their wages. The mills, which are the hugest in the State, have shut dow*n to await the result. John H. Ferriter, a Panhandle brakeman, was run over and torn to pieces, near Hebron, early Saturday morning. He fell from the rear of Section 1 and was passed over by Section 2, the body being'mangled beyond recognition.. William 11. Christie, by his next friend, Sarah J. Christie, has filed suit in the Scott Circuit Court against William H. Fllinger, claiming $5,000 damages for slander. The plaintiff is a seventeen-year-old grandson of the defendant, who is seventy-nine years old. * Indianapolis, on the basis that the children between the ages of six and twenty-one years will average“ v ofie-thir(l of the population, claims a population of 133,000, the children numbering 44,441. Evansville has 16,448 children, Terre Haute, 13,660 and Ft. Wayne, 10,282. The fifty-fourth annual catalogue of Wabash College has been issued. The institution is thriving and prosperous, and complete in all its departments. According to the last roster the whole number of alumni is 512, of whom 423 are now leaving. The past year 242 students were enrolled. —The “White Caps;” it is alleged, are about to begin operations in Shelby county. Several prominent Prohibitionists have received notice signed “White Caps,” to keep their “d —d mouthashut” or they would be strung up to a tree. Some of the members of ■ this party are considerably wrought up over it. Pete McCartney, the irrepressible counterfeiter recently released from the Michigan City penitentiary, has again been convicted,this time at New Orleans, and will go up for fifteen years more. McCartney has served a large portion of his long life behind the bars and it is hardly probable that he will ever be a freeman-again. Charlestown, a quiet retreat of 1,500 inhabitants in Clark county, in the early days of the country, enjoyed a big boom, similar to the Kansas City and California affairs. Lots sold at the enormous figure of SIOO a front foot and merchants carried large stocks of goods.. The place was the location of many manufactories, and it was believed it would become the commercial center of the West. Its dream of greatness is past. Speaking of the trouble over the sphool enumeration the Fort Wayne Sentinel says it is prepared to state that Fort Wayne is the second city in the State in population, the first in commercial and manufacturing greatness, and will not tamely submit to the manifestly false inference that she is the fourth city in the State in these respects. D. T. Disney, a member of the Duckworth Cliili, on his way from Cincinnat i to St. Louis, had his leg crushed under the wheels at Seymour, Su.iidayjn.oniing. It was at once amputated. When the train arrived at Seymour, a large number of the passengers got off on the platform. As the train started a rush was made to

Tj?jarcil'Be"lTarn andTh she scramble Mr. Disney fell under the wheels. y George C. Shakspeare, who died in »w Albany, Saturday.■a&sexted.lhaL.-.he. was aiiaeal-descendant of the Bard of Avon, and ins pretensions seemed to have some foundation. He was born at Henley-on-Harden sixty-two years ago, and had a varied and not unromantic battle with the world. He was the eld-

est of a large family of children and lived with his father, Joseph Shakspeare, on a small farm near Stratford-on-Avon. Henry Segeman, of BennettviUe, Clark county, w2fc shocked by lightning a few years ago, and ever since his body has been charged with electricity. He avoids all rapidly moving objects, such as a locomotive or an engine, fpr fear of being' drawn against them and crushed. He suffers no inconvenience, however,except during and previous to storms, when a peculiar tingling sensation is felt in his arms and legs. When this feeling is on him he gqes into a darkened room, and by snapping his fingers makes electric Sparks fly from them. I he Soldiers’ Monument Commissioners have called upon the various counties to each appropriate SIOO to bear expense of placing in the monument memorial tablets relative to the part each county took in the war, and there have already been favorable responses from fifteen. These tablets will occupy a space 32x24 on the north and south sides, beneath the inscription, ,and it is something which it is expected that every county will cordially approve. Patents were issued to Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: John J. Bishop, assignor of one-third to H. Wood, Greenwood, combined cooking and canfilling apparatus; Micajali C. J. Henley, Richmond, machine for boring, etc.; Wm. H. Hubbard, Indianapolis, fastening for envelopes; John Laser, Bremen, bee-hive; Jacob. V. Bowlett, Richmond, lawn mower; William Sylvester, Ashville, weather strip; M. H. Timberlake, Lafayette, pump; T. F. Vandegrift, N. H. and L. Maple, Shelbyville, fence machine.

The Postmaster General has informed Congress of the allowance of the following claims of postmasters in Indiana for losses of postal funds resulting from no fault on their part; Harry Fisk. Aurora, $283.50, loss by burglary; Albert S. Peacock, Attica, $383.95, burglary; George 11. Linn, Beldon, fire: CliaiTos Kelsey Chandler, $47.50, burglary; George W. Edwards, Clinton, $115.69, burglary; S. Donaldson, Ladoga, $54.73, fire; Timothy D. Caleric, Nashville, $2Ol, funds lost in the mails. The Agricultural Department has been making some investigations as to farm labor, with the following result: In Indiana it is estimated that there are 194,#l3 farms, of which 147,963 are cultivated by the owners. The farms cultivated by tenants are classified as follows: Cash rental 8,582 farms; cultivated on shares, 37,460 farms. In Indiana, it is stated, the farm is usually taken “at the halves;” sometimes two-fifths or two-thirds-is the custom; where uplands are farmed for two-thirds or three fifths, bottom lands are sometimes taken at onehalf. For labor alone the gets in best lands one-fourth. The new enumeration and apporfionment for school purposes by the State Superintendent has been completed. It shows that in 1887 there were 760,178 children of school age in the State, while in 1888 there were only 756,989—a decrease of something over 3,000. The total amount derived from the State school tax for the two years was as follows-*** 1887, $780,321.12; 1888, $779,558.88; interest collected on common school fund since last apportionment, $236,630.86, as against $244,142.63 for the same time the year previous. Total collected* for apportionment— T 857, for 1888, SI ,020,676!45 —a decrease of $25,137.14. The number of children of school age in Marion county in 1887 was 55,327; in 188, 55,835; in Vanderburg county, 1887, 19,930; 1888, 20,676; in Wayne county, ... 1887, 13,798; 1888, 13,405; in Vigo county, 1887, 20,508; 1888, 20,746; in Allen county, 1887,25,849; in 1888, 20,906. Marion county draws from the school fund $73,; 143.85; the next highest county is Alien, with $27,386.86; Vigo county next with $27,177.26. ’

POLITICAL.

Geo. W. Curtis has been re-elected President of the National Civil Service Reform League. The Chicago Central Labor Union has decided to vote for Palmer, Democratkcandidate for Governor df Illinois. Senator Gorman thinks tliat Thurman will he the Democratic candidate for Vice-President, if he will consent. Ben Butler says that if the Republicans, will nominate Sherman he will march to the White House as he marched ,to the sea. _ “ ■; Gath suggests Blaine and Gresham as a good compromise ticket, and says: “If Mr. Gresham is the possessor of those strong, radiant and brilliant abilities which are claimed, he will have an elegant seat at the head of. the United .States Senate to appear in for four years, provided the ticket can be elected.” The rumor is in circulation that Congressmen William Walter Phelps has received a letter from Mr. Blaine in Paris, in which the latter declares emphatically that he will not be a candidate: for the Presidency under any circumstances. The letter, which is brief, may he read at the Chicago Convention if it is thought advisable by BlainUs political friends. At the meeting of the Trades AsscmTJIy Western PennsyTvania’ representing 60,000 organized workmen, Saturday night, resolutions were unanimously adopted Mills.hi.lLauul... all its advocates, mid- condemning Congressman Scott, of Erie, as an enemy ot labor, as a dangerous person to the welfare of society and the industrial progress of America, and as a bitter enemy of organized labor.