Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1888 — Page 2

She sepubKcau. On. E. Mamuujjl, Publisher. RENSSELAER, INDIANA

It will even be safer to travel on a railroad car than to ait down at home. A n Australian is said to have designed a truck to run before every train, at an adjustable distance, bv an electric current transmitted from a dynamo on the engine. If the truck comes in collision with any body in front certain glass tubes, in which the current is conducted, are broken. The current is thus broken, and at the same moment the brakes of the train are automatically applied. This may or may not be a working discovery, still there is sure to bo some method ere long, for making high-speed travel almost alwolutelv secure. The lot of otir criminal classes seem demonstrably to be a short one and a tough one. It lias actually no ameliorations. “Out of 60.000 prisoners, more than one-half are between the ages of 17 and 30.” It takes but three generations to nse up a stock that runs to vice. The average life of Vicious people is less than one-half that of people of virtue. A recent writer complains that science creates a code of morals that consists in health. Is that not precisely why we are so deeply indebted to science that it is enlarging and lengthening the span of life, and at the same teaching us what valuable things life can achieve? industry in America has grown faster than the fruit industry'. No matter how fast the gardens and orchards are planted, the demand increases faster than the supply'. What is better, the bulk of consumption is by the laboring classes. The costly California products go to the tables of the rich, but the poorer classes not only eat abundantly of home products, but of the orange and banana. We even know of small clubs of laboring men who send South club orders for choice oranges. A large wholesale dealer reports that -liis orders from one small town of mill operatives are nearly $2,000 for fruits and vetetables in a year. There are two Bides to the sanitary problem—one the removal of filth and poison, the other the furnishing of health-inspiring foods, especially fruits. » A Successful Book Agent. Book ageuts, like poets and artists, must be born. They can not be made. A good address, tact, brilliant conversataonaT powers, and both veracity and unveracty are the inborn elements necessary for the successful book canvasser. That the fascinating and suave manner of the average professional book agent is irresistible is proved by the fact that there is hardly a person in the United States who, at some time or other, has not subscribed for a book that he did not want. Some years ago, says the New York Press, one of these agents visited a small hamlet in the State of Michigan selling “The Koyal Path of Life.” He had just nine books in his valise, and he was determined to sell all of them that day. The first man whom he approached was prominent in the church. “You would better calP up at the house and see my wife, for she buys all the books,” said the man, good-natured-ly. But with the customary pertinacity of the guild the agent made a sale. His success continued until, about 3 o’clock in the afternoon, he had sold seven copies of his book. He was axious to get away and determined to sell the remaining two copies, so he called on the wife of his first customer and, first being careful to ascertain that her husband had not been home since morning, he sold her one of his books. When the husband came home he gave his wife a parcel, saying one of those confounded book agents talked me into buying that book.” “What!” exclaimed his wife, “a book! Why, I bought one, too.” When they' compared notes they found that they were well supplied with, “The Royal Path of life.” The man was furious, and while he was putting on his boots to go down to the station to get square with that “villainous agent” a neighbor rode by, £nd the irate man shouted to him to detain that book agent at the station, as he wished particularly to see him. When the neighbor reached the station the train was in sight. “My friend, Mr. , wishes very much to see you before you leave he shouted. “Oh,*yes,” said the agent, blandly, “he warns one of my books, and I have just one left.” “Howmueh is it?” said the man hurriedly, for the tr&in was at hand. ‘Two dollars ” ~ “Here’s your money.” ’ “The train moved "off, carrying the book agent, just as the excited church member, in hot haste, came in sight. Hia anger at the latest imposition may be imagined. _

A Journey With the Star of Empire.

Tid Bite. He (in New York): Yes, darling, I’m going West to try and make money lor you. Then we can marry. She: Oh, the wild, far. West! The Indians! The danger! The grizzlies! The deadly blizzards! Oh! He: Fear not, darling; Igo no further West than Jersey City. “*■*' -4

HARRISON’S ACCEPTANCE

Gen. Benjamin Harrison, Tuesday night, gave the press his letter accepting the nomination tendered him by the Republican National convention. The letter is as follows: Hon. M. it. unit other*, Commutes, etc.: Gentlemen—When your committee visited mo on the Fourth of July-last and presented the official announcement es my nomination for the Preßidenfcv of the United States by .the Republican convention, I promised as Boon as practicable to communjcate to yon a more formal acceptance of the nomination. Since that time the work of receiving and addressing, almost daily, large delegations of mv isHow-citizens, has not only occupied all of my time, but has in some measure rendered it unnecessary for me to use thi&*k*tter as a medium of communicating to the public my views upon the questions involved in the campaign. I appreciate very highly* the confidence and respect manifested by the convention, and accept the nomination with a feeling of gratitude and a full sense of the responsibilities which accompany it. , It is a matter of congratulation that the declarations of the Chicago convention upon the questions that now attract the interest of our people are so clear and emphatic. There is further cause of congratulation in the fact that the convention utterances of the Democratic partv, if in any degree uncertain or contradictory, can now be judged and intepreted by executive acts and messages, and by definite propositions in legislation. This is esDecially true of what is popularly known as the tariff question. The issue can not n«w be obscured. It is not a contest between schedules, but between wide apart iirinciples. The foreign competitors or our market have, with quick instinct, seen how one issue of this contest may bring them advantage, and our own people are not so dull as to miss or neglect the grave interests that are involved for them. The assault upon our protective system is open and defiant. Protection is assailed as unconstitutional in law or as vicious in principle, and those who hold* such views sincerely can not stop short of an absolute” elimination from our tariff laws of the principle of protection. The Mills bill is only a step, but it is toward an object that the leaders of Democratic thought and legislation have clearly in mind. The important question is not so much the length of the step as the direction of it. Judged by the executive message of December last, by the Mills bill, by the debates in Congress, and by the St. Louis platform, the Democratic party will, if supported by the country, place the tariff laws upon a purely revenue basis. This is practically free' trade—free trade in the English sense. The legend upon the banner may not be “Free Trade”— it may be the more obscure motto, “Tariff Reform;” but neither the banner nor the inscription is conclusive, or, indeed, very important. The assault itself is the important fact. Those who teach that the import duty upon foreign goods sold in our market is paid bv the consumer, and that the" price of the domestic competing article is enhanced to the amount of the duty 6n the imported article—that every million of dollars collected for customs duties represents many millions more which ao not reach the treasury, but are paid by our citizens as the increased cost of domestic productions resulting from the tariff laws —may not intend to discredit in the minds of others our system of levying duties on competing foreign products, but it is clearlv already discredited in their own. We cannot doubt, without impugning their integrity, that, if free to act upon their convictions they would so revise our laws as to lay the burden of the customs revenue upon articles that are not produced in this country, and to place upon the free list alicompeting foreign products. Ido not stop to refute this theory as to the effect of our tariff duties. Those who advance it are students of maxims and not of the markets. They may be safely allowed to call their project “tariff reform,” if the people understand that in the end the argument compels free trade in all competing products. This end may not be reached abruptly, and its approach may be accompanied with some expressions of sympathy for our protected industries and our working people, but it will certainly come, if these early steps do not arouse the people to effective resistance. V . ’ " T- —’ The Republican party holds that a protective tariff is constitutional, wholesome and necessary. We do not offer a fixed schedule, but a principle. We will revise the schedule, modify rates, but always with an intelligeht prevision as to the effect upon domestic production and the wages of our working people." We believe it to be one of the worthy objects of tariff legislation to preserve the American market for Amercan producers, and to main ain the American stale of wages, by adequate discriminating duties,upon foreign competing products. The effect of lower rates and larger importations upon the Jiublic revenue is contingent and doubtul, but not so the effect upon American production and American wages. Less work and lower wages must be accepted as the inevitable result of the increased offering of foreign goods in our market. By way of recompense for this reduction in his wages, and the loss of the American market, it is suggested that the diminished wages ot the workingman will have an undiminished purchasing power, and that he will be able to make up for the loss of the home market by an enlarged foreign market. * Our werkingmen have the settlement of the question in their own hands. They now obtain higher wages and live more comfortably than those of any other country. They will make choice between the substantial advantages they have in hand and the deceptive promises and forecasts of these theorizing reformers. They will decide for themselves and for the country whether the protective system Bhall be continued or destroyed. >, The fact of a Treasury surplus, the amount of which is variously stated, has directed public attention to a consideration of the methods by which the national income may best be reduced to the level of a wise and necessary expenditure. This condition has been seized upon by those who are hostile to protective custom duties as an advantageous base of attack upon our tariff laws. They have magnified and nursed the surplus, which they affect to deprecate, seemingly for the purpose of exaggerating the evil in order to reconcile the

people to the extreme remedy thev prOpoee. A proper reduction of the revenues does not necessitate, and should not suggest, the abandonment or impairment of the protective system. The methods suggested by our convention will not need to be exhausted in order to affect the necessary reduction. We are not likely to be called upon, I think, to make a present choice between the Surrender of the protective" system and the entire repeal of the internal taxes. Such a contingency, in view of the present taxation of expenditures to revenues, is remote. The inspection and regulation of the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine iB important, and the revenue derived from it is not so great that the repeal of the law need enter into any plan of revenue reduction. The surplus now in the treasury should be used in the purchase of bonds. The law authorizes this use of it, and if it is not needed for current or deficiency appropriations, the people, and not the. hanks in which it has oeen deposited, should have the advantage of its use by stopping interest on the public debt. At least those who needlessly hoard it should not be allowed to use the fear oi a momentary stringency, thus produced, to coerce public sentiment upon other questions. Closely connected with the subject of the tariff is that of -the importation of foreign laborers under contracts of service to be performed here. The law now in force prohibiting such contracts received my cordial support in the Senate, and such amendments as may be found necessary effectively to deliver our workingmen and women from this most inequitable form of competition will have my sincere advocacy. Legislation prohibiting the importation of laborers undercontracts to serve here will,however, afford very inadequate relief to our working people, if the system of protective duties is broken down. If the products of American shops must compete in the American market, without favoring duties, with the products of cheap foreign labor, the effect will be different,if at all, only in degree, whether the cheap laborer is across the street or over tne sea. Such competition will soon reduce wages here to the level of those abroad, and when that condition is reached we will not need any laws forbidding the importation of laborers under contract—they have no inducement to come, and the employer no inducement to send for them. - In the earlier years of our history public agencies to promote immigration were common. The pioneer wanted a neighbor with more friendly instincts than the Indian. Labor was scarce and fully employed. But the day of the immigration bureau has gone by. While our doors will continue open to proper immigration, we do not need to issue special invitations to the inhabitants of other countries to come to our shores or to share our citizenship. Indeed, the necessity of some inspection and limitations is obvious. We should resolutely refuse to permit foreign governments to send their paupers and criminals to our ports. We are also clearly under a duty to defend our civilization by excluding alien races whose ultimate assimilation with our people is neither Eossible or desirable. The family has een the neucleus of our best immigration and the home the most potent assimilating force in our civilization. The objections to Chinese immigration are distinctive and conclusive, and are now so generally accepted as sudfi that the question has passed entirely beyond the stage of argument. The laws relating to this subject would, if I should be charged with their enforcement, be faithfully executed. Such amendments or further legislation as may be- neces-. sary and proper to prevent evasions of the laws and to stop further Chinese immigration would also meet my approval. The expression of the convention upon this subject is in entire harmony with my views. '-rnOur civil compact is a government by majorities; and the law loses its sanction and the magistrate our respect when this compact is broken. The evil results of election frauds do not expend themselves upon the voters who are robbed of their rightful influences in public affairs. The individual, or community,' or practices or connives at election frauds, has suffered irreparable injury and will sooner or later realize that to exchange the American system of majority rule for minority control is not only unlawful and unpatriotic, but very unsafe for those who promote it. The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave jto be regarded lightly. The" right of every qualified elector to cast one free ballot and to have it honestly counted must not be questioned. Every constitutional power should be used to make the right secure and to punish frauds upon the ballot. Qur colored people d® not ask special legislation to their interest, but only to be made secure in the common rights of citizenship. They will, however, naturally mistrust the sincerity of those party leaders who appeal to their race for support only in those localities where the suffrage is free and election results doubtful, "and compass their disfranchisement where their votes would be controlling and their choice cannot be coerced. The Nation, not less than the States, is dependent for prosperity and security upon the intelligence and morality of the people. This common interest very early suggested national aid in the establishment and endowment of schools and colleges in. the new States. There is, I believe, a present exigency that calls for still more liberal and direct appropriations in aid of common school education in the States. " j" ' The territorial form of government is a temporary expedient, not a permanent civil condition. It is adapted to the exigency that suggested it, but becomes inadequate, and even oppressive, when applied to fixed and populous communities. Several Territories are well able to bear the burdens and discharge the duties of free commonwealths in the American Union. To exclude them is to deny the just rights of their people, and may well excite their indignant protest. No question of the political preference of tne people of a Territory should close against them the hospitable door which has opened to two-thirds of the existing States. But admission shoatd J be resolutely refused to any Territory, a majority oi whose people cherish institutions that are repugnant to our civilization or inconsistent with a Republican form of government. The declaration of the convention against “all combinations of capital, organized in trusts or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens,” is in r harmony with the views entertained and publicly expressed

by me long before the assembling of the convention. Ordinarily, capital shares the losses of idleness witn labor, bnt under the operation of the trust, in some of its forms, the wage-worker alone suffers loss, while idle papital receives its dividends Jrom a trustjupd. Producers who refiise to join the combination are destroyed, and competition as an element oi prices is eliminated. It cannot be doubted that the legislative authority should and will find a method of dealing fairly and effectively with these and other abuses connected with this subject. It can hardly be necessary for me to say that I am heartily in sympathy with the declaration of the convention upon the subject of pensions to our soldiers and sailors. What they gave and what they suffered I had some opportunity to observe, and, in a small measure, to experience. They gave ungrudgingly; it was not a trade, but an offering. The, measure was heaped up, running over. What they achieved, only a distant generation can adequately tell. Without attempting to discuss particular propositions, I may adtl that measures in behalf of the surviving veterans of the war and of the families of their dead comrades should be conceived and executed in a spirit of justice and of the most grateiul liberality, and that, in the competition for civil appointments, honorable military Service should have appropriate recognition. The law regulating appointments to the classified civil service received my support in the Senate, in the belief that it opened the way to a much needed reform. I still think so, and, therefore, cordially approve the clear and forcible expression of the convention upon this subject. The law should have tne aid of a friendly interpretation and be faithfully and vigorously enforced. All appointments under it should be absolutely free from partisan considerations and influence. Some extensions of the classified list: are practicable and desirable, and further legislation extending the reform to other branches of the service, to which it is applicable, would receive my approval. In appointments to every grade and department, fitness, and not party service, should be the essential ana discriminating test, and fidelity and efficiency the only sure tenure of office. Only the interests of the public service should suggest removals from - office. I know the practical difficulties attending the attempt to apply the spirit of the civil-service rules to all agpointmehts and removals. It will, however, be my sincere purpose, if elected, to advance the reform. I notice with pleasure that the convention did not omit to express its solicitude for the promotion of virtue and temperance among our people. The Republican party has always been friendly to everything that tended to make the home life of our people free, pure and prosperous, and will in the future be true to its history in this respect. Our relations foreign powers should be characterized by Friendliness and respect. The right of our people and of our ships to hospitable treatment should be insisted upon with dignity and firmness. Our nation is too great, both in material strength and moral power, to indulge in bluster or to be suspected of .timorousness. Vacilliation and inconsistency are as incompatible with successful diplomacy as they are with the natiohal dignity. We should especially- cultivate and extend our diplomatic and commercial relations with the Central and South American States. Our fisheries should be fostered and protected. The hardships and risks that are the necessary incidents of the business should not be increased by an inhospitable exclusion from the near lying ports. The resources of a firm, dignified and consistent diplomacy are undoubtedly equal to the prompt and peaceful solution of the difficulties that now exist. Our neighbors will surely not expect in our ports a commercial hospitality they deny to us in theirs. - . I cannot extend this letter by a special reference to other subjects Upon which the convention gave anexpression. In respect to them, as well as to those I have noticed, I am in entire agreement with the declarations of the convention. The resolutions relating to the coinage, to the rebuilding of the navy, to coast defenses and to public lands, express conclusions to all ©f which I gave my support in the Senate. Inviting a calm and thoughtful consideration of these public questions, we submit them to the people. Their intelligent patriotism and the good Providence that made and has kept us a Nation will lead to wise and safe conclusions. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, Benj. Harrison.

Fraud Detected by Photography.

Popular Science News. “—~~—- By the aid of photography a Berlin merchant was lately convicted of creoked ways in keeping his accounts. The slightest differences in color and shade of inks are made manifest in the pholy white; brow n inks, on the contrary almost black. The books of the accused were submitted to a photographer, who took off the pages concerned, and brought into court the most undoubted ocular proofs of the illegimate after-entry of the accounts. A subsequent chemical test substantiated this evidence. The photographic is to be preferred to the chemical test, because it brings its proofs into court and submits them to inspection, at the same time leaving the document under examination unhanded; while the results of a chemical test must be taken on the evidence of the chemist alone, and the writing examined is perhaps destroyed. In another case similar to the above the changing of the date of a note by an insignifican erasure and addition was proved by means of photography. The last Bostonian and the biggest is the Leyland line freight steamer of that name, which is the largest freight steamer afloat, having an overall length of 437 feet, and an actual capacity of 8,000 tons, with engines requiring twelve fm> naces and about forty tons of coal a day. The initial trip from the Liverpool dock to the Hoosac Tunnel line dock in Boston was made in ten days and five hoars.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

White county has a good corn crop. New Albany has 2,725 school children. Ft. Wayne Methodists will form an alliance. ' Many boats are being built in the shipyards at Madison. Sunday is usually the liveliest day in the Michigan City port. Another attempt has been made to bum the town of Frankton. Andersen’s society ladies parade with torches in political processions. The Indiana W. C. T. U. is making a vigorous war on impure literature. Not over 20 per cent, of the farms in Montgomery county are under mortgage. ■*-- . . / A sauerkraut factory at Valparaiso will use 90,000 heads of cabbage this season. The capacity of the Terre Haute distillery will be increased to 2,200 bushels per day. Harvey Alexander was instantly killed near Austin by being thrown from his buggy. David Tingley has been arrested charged with dynamiting the Qutler post office. A fifteen-year-old son of John Turner was ruu over by a log wagon and killed, near Marion. Putnam counly commissioners refused to contribute a tablet to the State soldiers monument. A twenty-inch alligator was captured in a fish-pond near Osgood, Friday. The wonder is, how did it get there. Fayette county is said to have more first-class brass bands to the square inch than any other county in the State. Mrs. Mary Doran was, Tuesday, indicted by the Bartholomew county grand jury for the killing of her husband with carbolic acid. A disgraceful thing at Avilla was an attempt to arrest a lady, aged seventy years, for talking temperance on the streets of the town. Clare Kelly, the eight-year-old son of Peter Kelly, of Elkhart, was fatally shot while playing with a revolver which was supposed to be unloaded. Indianapolis plumbers, of whom there is many, putting in natural gas, struck, Monday, for an increase of 30 per cent, in wages and a reduction of hours. Fire destroyed the barn of Janet Covant, twelve miles south of Marion, with two horses, a thresher, five hundred bushels of wheat and twenty tons oi hay. Loss, $3,000; insurance, SI,OOO. Diphtheria is spreading from Petersburg to Sellersburg, and schools there are closed. There are at least fifty cases. Three deaths Thursday. The Board of Health has ordered immediate burial of the dead. Theodore Groub, of Seymour, shot a burglar, whom he saw in his room Thursday night. He was found to be Geo. Mitchell, of Bowling Green, Ky. He was badly hit, receiving wounds in the head and leg. Miss Annie Kessler, daughter of George Kessler, a farmer residing in Adams township Allen county, while crossing a field, was attacked by a vicious ox, and before help could reach her was horribly gored. She is still alive, but cannot recover. Dr. P. M. Leonard, an old and highly respected physician of Fort Wayne, assaulted his daughter, Miss Hattie, striking her over the head with a buggy whip. The cause of the trouble was that the father would have to take her every morning to school to the neglect of his practice. Possibly the oldest person bom in Indiana now living within the State boundaries is Thomas Bland, who resides a few. miles south of Columbus. He was born in Clark county in 1804, and has always lived in this State. His wife is still living and is only two months younger than her husband. Two drunken men, Finley and Martin by name, while walking along the track of the L., N. A. C. road, near Providence, Friday were run down • by an incoming freight train and both killed. The head of one was crushed and the body of the other cut in twain. They resided at Martinsburg, Washington county, and had been in attendance at the Pekin fair. S Grand Master Isaac B. Leyden, of New Albany, Ind., Friday, issued a circular to all the Masonic lodges of Indiana, calling on the order, collectively as lodges, or individuals, to respond to the call for assistance by the sufferers from yellow fever in Florida. The Grand Master that contributions be sent as soon as possible to Grand Secretary W. H. Smythe, Indianapolis, Ind. George Williams, a Wabash county horse thief, who recently attempted’ to. break jail, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment Tuesday. He is thought to belong to a band of horse thieves operating in Southern Michigan and the northern part of Indiana. He had agreed to “give away” the secrets of the gang if his sentence was limited to two years, but all efforts to worm the secret from him have ¥ proven failures. The Wabash Importing Company has begun the experiment of breeding fine Belgian draft horses at the stock farm of the company, near Wabash. A few days ago an importation of forty head of fine animals, valued at $60,000, arrived from Belgium, including several mares. The experiment will be watched with interest by importers of draft horses, and, if successful, will materially affect the importation of animals of that class.

It jta,kes the Belgian horse about a year tohecome acclimated, and during that period he is not seen at his beet in this* country. The Wabash Company now has sixty head of these valuable animals. The Supreme Court of Indiana will meet f his week. Since adjournment in June, ninety-six cases have been filled with the Clerk of the Court. When the court adjourned for the summer vacation there were on the docket 1,063 cases. This gives a present total of undecided cases of 1,159. The court in one year decides on an average about 500 cases. It is seen, therefore, that it is now, as it has long been, at least two years behind in its work. - : V Harry Hall, an estimable young man, was accidentally shot and instantly killed by Matthew Burton, while attending an apple pearing at the house of John Grimes, about four miles north of English. An old revolver had lain for months on the Grimes mantelpiece, and George Bornwasser,a merchant of Fargo, laid his revolver in the same place. Burton, who came to the apple pearing and knowing that the old revolver had been there for a long time, picked up Bomwasser’s pistol instead. He took it down and by carelessly handling discharged it, the ball striking Harry Hall, his boon companion, directly in the heart. Hall never spoke, but died instantly. Patents were granted Indiana inventors, Tuesday, as follows: Jonas H. Aidrich, Butler, journal-box; James R. Baker, Kendalville, back gear for turn-ing-lathes; James A. Beecher, Mishawaka, screw-cutting die head; Lawson A. Boyd, Indianapolis, relief valve for automatic air-brakes; Annabella and M. A. Kelly, Holman Station, escape attachment for vapors and odors from cooking vessels: Edward C. Mead, Elkhart, wrench; Andrew J. Owens, Rushville, insect destroyer; William N. Rumley, assignor to himself and M. Rumley, LaPorte, steam-boiler; Charles F." Sleigh, Fort Wayne, rotary engine; Ezra Stalker, Westfield, weather-strip. The list of prominent speakers who will be sent to Indiana by the National Republican Committee includes the names of Gen. R. A. Alger, Michigan; Patrick Egan, Nebraska; J. B. Eoraker, Governor of Ohio; Solon Chase, Maine; Fred Douglas, Washington; E. H. Hutching, Commissioner of Labor, Des Moines, la.; Senator G. F. Hoar, Hon. W. P. Hepburn, John Jarrett; Hon. John A. Kasson, Iowa; Hon. Hans Matson, St. Paul, Minn.; Gov. Oglesby, Illinois; Gen. F. W. Palmer, Hon. R. T. Lincoln, Chicago; Hon. T. B. Reed, Maine; Hon. J. F. Scanlon, Illinois; John F. Finerty, Chicago; J. B. G. Pitkin, Iowa; Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, New York; Hon. Greene B. Raum, Illinois; Hon. George F. Swift, Boston; General Lucius Fairchild, Madison, Wis.; Charles H. Litchman, Knight of Labor; Gen. Wm. C. Knefler, Belleville, III.; Major C'&rl Lutz, New York; Col. A. L. Snowden, f’hiladelohia; Hon. J. M. Thurston, Nebraska; Gen. Paul Vandervoort, Nebraska; Gen. James A. Beaver, Governor of Pennsylvania; Gen. Geo. A. Sheridan. Appointments have been made in Indiana for Anna Dickinson as follows: Richmond, Sept. 20; Muncie, 21; Indianapolis, 22; Terre Haute, 24; Crawfordsville, 25; Lafayette, 26; Logansport, 27; Wabash, 28; South Bond, October 1, and Fort Wavne the 2d.

M ASSACHUSETTS REPUBLICANS.

The Massachusetts Republicans met in State convention at Boston, Wednesday. Oliver Ames was nominated for Governor on the first ballot. The platform endorse es the Republican National platform and candidates. “The protective policy which shall keep the American m’arket for Americans, and prevent the wages of her workmen from being degraded by the competition of the pauper or the slave, below the standard which shall enable them to enjoy the comfort and leisure which are becoming and essential to American Citizenship” is insisted upon; condemns the system of undervaluation and false invoicing as demoralizing and ruinous to our foreign business, favors submission to the people of a prohibitory amendment, condemns the foreign policy of the present administration and condemns trusts. A full State ticket was nominated.

A Colony Up in the Clouds.

s«n Francisco Bulletin. Life at the Lick Observatory, over 4,ooofeet above the ocean levol,on a lofty summit, with other mountain crests only for neighbors, is an interesting study. Here is probably the highest colony in California. The astronomers and necessary ; employes of the observatory form a little world of their own, and few of them care often to go outside of it. The stage that comes once a day brings news from the world outside, and viafe tors, curious to see the wonders of tbs mountain. A contract with a San Jose expressman secures all needed freight once a month, sometimes oftener. A butcher with supplies comes up the twenty-eight miles of tortuous mountain road once a week. Cows and chickens are adjuncts to the Commissary Department. • Quail, rabbits and deer are plentiful in surrounding canyons, and some of the sportsmen-astronomers came from cities, yet none complain or sigh for attractions beyond those revealed by the marvelous telescopes. Detroit Free Press: are the only persons who do not believe in their convictions.