Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — Page 6

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Some Maryland people think they have solved the problem of an auto-j malic railway, fer the transportation of the jawffto- express matter and light freight generally. It is to be operated by electricity, powerful dynamos being placed at Stations 25 miles apart, and a very high rate of speed is said to be possible. The system works very, . well on an experimental basis, but may fail when tried on a commefiSal scale, in spite of the enthusiasm of experts, including Edison, who declares it to be the greatest conception'since the telegraph. Mr. Grant A jaen propounds in the Forum a new view of “Woman’s Place in Nature.” “Themales,” he says, “are the race, they are merely the sex tokl off to recruit and produce it. All that is distinctively human is man; the field, the ship, the mine, the workshop; all frhftt is truly woman is merely reproductive; the home, the nursery, the school room.” “This very necessity for telling off at leagt a considerable number of the women forthe arduous duties of human maternity, prevents ttie-possibility of woman as such ever being really in any deep sense the race. It is human to till, to build, to navigate, to manufacture; and these are the functions that fall upon man.” “The male have built up human civilisation and have made the great functionally acquired gains in human faculty, while the females have acted as mere passive transmitters of these male aconisitions.” Well, this is news, and we cheerfully hand Mr. Allen over to the punishment which his temerity and heterodoxy are sure to receive. .

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Secretary Blaine is suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. He and Bismarck have at least one thing in com mon. The Chinese Minister at Washington has - a great admiration for American women. He says they are the most beautiful in the world. “Coflee Pot,” a well known character who peddled lunches around the New York newspaper offices, is dying in that city. He is worth $250,00i). Mrs. Cleveland may now be seen at nearly all the principal mimical events. During the concert she sits calmly and listens with quiet interest. The Csarof Russia recently celebrated his forty-fifth birthday. This is a remarkable fact, when the record of the plotß against his life is looked at. Senator Ingalls will spend the summer in fishing, hunting, reading, smoking and talking to his Kansas constituents. His fences are said to be somewhat in need of repair of late. A gold medal to commemorate the jubilee of phonography is to be presented to Isaac Pitman at a dinner in London. The medal, which weighs about two and three-quarter ounces, contains an excellent portrait of the venerable inventor of phonography. A SIOO,OOO mill for the manufacture of sugar, salt and paper, is now being bnilt at Arkalon, Kan. For three months it will make/Sugar from sorghum, then work up the cane chips into paper, and the rest of the time turn out bushels and boshelß of salt.

There will be exhibited at the Texas Spring Palace, which is to oe built at Fort Worth, a gigantic map of the Lone Star State. The women of Texas are making the map on canvas, and the name of each of the 264 counties will be “worked with some beautiful product made in the county.” One county, Tom Qreen, is larger than the States of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Wm. D. Howells ha® grown very fond of New York. He says that at first he was unable to do any literary work there, as the noise and bustle distracted his attention. He has ndw grown used to these features of metropolitan life and feels a new inspiration from the varied types of humanity which the city displays. He is desirous of writing a novel which will take in all kinds of characters to be fonnd in New York. His idea is based upon Balzac’s “comedie humane,” and, like Balzac, Howells will probably be obliged to make a large number of stories to illustrate his design. “Women nowadays can’t make the coffee our mothers used to make,’ Hjsmythe remarked to his friend Plvjonesz, who was breakfasting with him. “My father used to say that a cup of coffee such as my mother made for him was all the breakfast he wanted for a hard day’s work.” “Yes,” said Mrs. HJamythe. “and yonr father died »t the * age of 57. I’d give all I’m worth if I could find the recipe for that coffee.’ And she sighed deeply as the conversation went ashore with a hollow sound. Secretary Blaine’s present attack of lumbago is the first he has had to eadure since he left Earope. Before he left thia country he suffered a great deal from rheumatism in the back, but he has been free from that affliction for many months. There is only one mode of treatment which, gives him relief. He goes to bed, perspires freely, drinks hot gin and sleeps as much as possible. It generally takes him about two days to fully recover when the attack has been a sharp cm.

INDIANA STATE SEWS.

Elkhart has 3,214 school children. Blnffcon is building * court house. Seymour has 1,740 school children. Chess playing is the rage at Bhslbyville. W ' ■ Crawfordsvilie has 2,536 school children. One hundred convicts in the Prison Sout h have the mumps. There is a probability of the removal of the Aurora mail works to Anderson. David Smith, fcolored) of CrAwfordsville, aged one hundred and one years, died Saturday. 1.. Peters, of Markleyille, was damaged $4,000 hy the burning of Ms barn by an incendiary. Rushville had a chicken, which lived a day, with four legs, four Wings. two bodiqeaud one head. Matt, Hurley, of Evansville, having but thirty days t© serve, has escaped from the Prison Sooth. Calvin Todd, near Alamo, bitten by a dog, is reported to have gone insane through fear of hydrophobia. Smith Eaulkner, of Jeffersonville, scratched himself with a nail. Lockjaw resulted and his death followed. It is told on Kokomo that a cook stove goes as a chromo to every purchaser of a lot in the new additions. Captain Henry Finch, of Manistee, Mich., has been assigned to the care of the life-saving station at Michigan City. The Southern prison made its quarter Ip settlement with the Auditor of State Monday, handing into the treasury $15,885.57.

George E. Mullen, of New Castle, aged fifty, attempted suicide on Saturday by hanging, but was discovered afad cut dow it by his wife. Edwin Frankstein and Nellie Marks, of Louisville, the groom aged sixteen and the bride thirteen, were married in Jeffersonville, Tuesday. Aurelius Payne, of Ft Wayne, aged sixty-two, was married Thursday hu the man, aged twenty-seven. Henry Smith, of Indianapolis, while fishing near Riverside, in Bartholomew county, caught a shovel head catfish weighing fifty-five pounds. The body of Miss Anna Holmes, of ConnersviUe, who left home nearly one year ago, was recently found in the Ohio river, at Newport, Kv. The New Albany Presbytery, at the meeting to be held at Hanover on the 14th inst,, will ordain several young rnen for foreign mission work.

Woo'scy Barbour, near Terre Haute, an early pioneer of Vigo county, died Sunday. In 1832 he studied law under Judge Jeremiah Black, in Indianapolis. Henry Stoekhofl, a young German, working as a farm hand near Brownetown, committed suicide Tuesday, leaving a note saying he was tired of life. A mistake has been discovered in the figures of the judges at the interstate oratorical contest at Grinnell, la., which gives Wilkerson, of DePaaw University, first place. A bundle of switches aud a warning note having no effect in scaring away the only wloon keeper at Newtonvillej a keg of powder underneath his drinkery lifted it into space. Mrs. Sarah Bolton, one of the earlier •attlers of Vigo county, was knocked down by a cow last week, breaking her leg near the thigh and causing other injuries. Mrs. Bolton is aged seventyfive. Wednesday night burglars entered Bqj sleeping room oi Isaac Alexander, at Rochester, and after appropriating $225, took his keys and went to his saloon, where they regaled themselves with the best of his stock. « A farmer named Ring, Thursday, at Lawrenceburg, tendered a female ground-hog with three young in exchange for his taxes, and was overwhelmed with disgust when the county refused to accept the offer. Martin Skinner, ot Greensburg, has been sentenced to the penitentiary as a horse-thief. After his conviction his promised bride insisted that their marriage should follow, but the consent of the Sheriff could not be secured. Highlands, three miles from Vincennes, the male Orphan Asylum of the Catholic church, burned Monday mornirg. About one hundred and forty boys are homeless. The buildings were insured for $2,500. The loss is complete. The report of the Union Railway Company, for April, shows that 3,208 regnlar passenger trains entered the Union Station at Indianpolis during the month, and 61 special trains. The total number of coaches included in both was 23,721.

An egg measuring 10J inches in its largest circumference was the product of a Kendallville light Brahma pullet, and w hen broken a full sized and perfect egg was found within; the same surrounded by the white and yolk of the larger egg. ’ At Laport, Sunday, fire destroyed sixteen ice-houses and their contents of 26,000 tons of ice, together with twenty Lake Shore freight cars. Charles Ohlis, son of the superintendent, was, it is feared, fatally burned. The loss is estimated at $33,000. John Sinkman obtained a license and attempted to operate a saloon at Newtonville in opposition to the overwhelming sentiment of the community. All other means failing to abate the business, powder was placed under his saloon and it was blown to atomß. Dr. A. B. Collar, of Syracuse, convicted of criminal malpractice and sentenced for six years; Otto Riley who attempted to kill Mosne Nelson at a church festival; \Vm. Kibler, accused of larceny, and Webc Brat, escaped from thes7oo,ooo jaiiwt Kosciusko, Saturday night. Monroeville Republicans are so determinedly opposed to Hugh Stewart, recently appointed postmaster, that a boycott has been organized against the office, and citizens have arranged for a E express, and send their mail to a town across the Ohio line to be forwarded. The Bee Line and Indianapolis & St. Louis railroad will '?hn no more freight trains on Sunday, and only the passen ¥sr trains required to transact business. his is in accordance with the determination of the Vanderbilts to stop ail unnecessary Sunday labor on all the lines controlled by them. Elijah Clarkson, of Jennings county, secured a marriage license for himself

and Mise Rosa E Combs, of Columbus. Afterward be returned the docnment, explaning that a differencearosebetween himself and the lady over religions mat tors jhet previous to the time set for the ceremonies, ana the engagement had been declared off. Sunday night Jordon Rhodes, a lad who is under sentence to the State Reformatory for la#eny, at Wabash, escaped from the Sheriff’s custody and went to Roanoke, where be wag given lodging in a private house. Monday morning Rhodes stole a watch and other valuables'from his benefactor and again fled, Patents have been issued to Indiana inventors as follows: Brice, Peter F. and A, Fi, Indianapolis, bread making machine;' Burns, John 8., Indianapolis,, automatic break adjustor; Burrell, Geo. 8., Indianapolis, carpet protector, Myers, John A., Monroe City, combined harveater and threshißffnattchine; Owen, W. H.. Onarga, 111., A. B. Boswell, Fowler, and J, J. Oarlock, Watzka, stove; Scott, Stephen E. Plainwell, Mich., and W. Ohern, Fort Wavne, railway bridge guard; Will Brandt Emit, Indianapolis, surgical needle case: It is the opinion of State Superintendent LaFolJette, judging from the reports that have been received, that the enumeration of school children in Indiana this year will show a smaller population than in previous years, the decrease in some counties being from 300 to SQO. This is due,he believes,to the care of the persons taking the enumeration to make it correct. In hie instructions the Superintendent required affidavits from the enumerators, and it is already evident that it will have good effect. Charles Osborne, of Montgomery county, acted as a Federal Deputy Marshal at the last election, and he arrester! Charles Haas, of Wayhetown.for alleged violation of the election law. Mr. Haas was acquitted. Osborne was fined for assault and battery on both Mr. and Mrs. Haas,which was paid by his friends. Mr. Haas sued Osborne aud Marshal Hawkins for damages, and Mr. Hawkins petitioned t« be released on the ground that the law did not authorize the ap-

pointment of Federal Deputies in towns of less than 20,000 inhabitants, and that he should not be held responsible for acta of Deputies in places of less population. The point was sustained. Judgment was then taken against Osborne for SSOO, and Friday his entire possessions, consisting largely of wearing apparel, was sold by the Sheriff to eatisiy the judgment. But $17.50 was realized by the sale, and afterpayment of costs, but 55 cents remained to offset the judgment.

DISAPPOINTED BOOMERS.

Hundreds of Families Find Themselves destitute- Much Suffering. A dispatch from Arkansas City of Monday the 6th says: The suffering of the baffled boomers finds most prominent evidence along this northern border. Monday 1,000 wagons in the march down and 800 wagons on the way back were counted. The groves in the Arkansas and Walnut river valleys that offered camps fir the boomers before the descent are filling again with the returning unfortunates. There are hundreds of families among them who have sold everything to make the trip, and, now have nothing left. The sight of men, women and children, who are thus unprovided for and desolate with the mere frames of horses surviving to drag them along, is pitiful. Guthriestill holds the majority of population and is not yet symmetrically formed. Oklahoma City is the mcst promising town site. Capt. Crouch, the old successor to boomer Payne, was, Saturday, elected mayor, defeating a preacher, whose platform was against gambling and whigky. As long as the latter 1b excluded, sb it is now, serious tro ub 1 e cannot occur in Oklahoma. -

HAWES WILL HANG. A jury at Birmingham, '.Ala., Saturday, found Hawes guilty of murder of his wife and daughter, and sentenced him to death. It will be remembert-xL that the bodies of his wife and daughter were iound in a lake near Birmingham, weighted down, and the skull of his wife crashed. Hawes had married another woman tJue day after the murders. When the body" of his daughter was discovered he was arrested and jailed. The finding of the body of Mrs. Hawes aroused the people to intense frenzy, and it was determined to lynch Hawes. On the morning of December 9, a mob, which had been surging about the jail, made an attack. Sheriff Smith repeatedly warned the crowd that he would order the troops to fire if the attack was made. No heed was taken by the maddened throng, and at the command of the Sheriff the Gatling gun was turned on tne crowd and fired. Twelve killed and fifteen wounded was the result of the firing.

l>ea(h of Chairman Barn am. Hon. William H. Barnum, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, died at Lime Rock, Conn., on the 30th. He was born in Connecticut, Sept. 17, 1818. He was educated at the public schools, and in 1836 went into business. He was lor many" years engaged in the manufacture of car wheels and in the production of iron from ore. He was elected a member of the Connecticut Legislature in 1852, was a delegate to the Union National Convention in Philadelphia in 1866, was sent to Congress as a Democrat in the same year, and retained his seat by successive re-elec-tions till 187 t», in which year he was elected to the United States Senate to fill the term of Qrrift S. Ferry, deceased, ending March 4, 1879. Much of Mr. Barnum’s prominence was due to his long service as Chairman of the Democratic National Executive Committee, from which poeition be retired at the opening ot the last Presidential campaign-

She Know. Youth*’ Companion. “I can give you gaa if you are afraid the pain will be too great to endure,” said a dentist to an elderly colored woman who had come to have several teeth extracted. “No.sah; nosah!” she said, shilling her head emphatically; “yon don’t gib me no gas an’ hab me git np out’n dat cheer en walk house dead, no, sab! I reads de newspapahsl”

THAT CENTENNIAL BALL.

Drunken Waiters, Vulgar People and Gamblers Contrive to Make It a Disgraceful Kvent. ■ _4 • The New York World says Now that The centennial ball is over, people who paid from $lO to $25 apiece to participate in it, and whose fan was represented by the figure L, are taking out the balance in criticism. The tongues of theball-goeis were blistered with faultfinders Thursday. On all sides it was conceded that the centennial bajl was the biggest exec-, utive failure of /the century. People who were most competent to speak, were loudest in declaring the ball a monument of incapacity and vulgarity. As Mr. Ward McAllister read his private dispatches in his Washington retreat, a complacent smile overspread and softened his features. The scenes in the supper-room ckhEot bediscribed safely in a newspaper. Never since the palace of the Tulleries was invaded in 1779 by the sans culottes of the Seine department have such startling contrasts been witnessed in similar circumstances. When it is said that the waiters, policemen and messenger boys drank most of the free champagne, the situation at midnight may be suggested. Justices of the Supreme Court, Governors, staff officers, club men, lawyers, poets, millionaires, with beautiful and refined women -crowded blankly along the supper counter and demanded in vain the attention they were accustomed to receive. The functionariesaroundthe place showed undisguised contempt iof the “free lunch fiends.” Waiters who did pot have to account for the unlimited wipe took occasiop to neglect'guests JhjeaE'themselves. The excellent ifojjilpjr-tWas largely wasted. There was no*/responsibility for anything to anybody*. The “gentlemen’s dining room’’ idea was shown to be an uttejr fallacy. By 12:30 a. m. the supper room had been given over to people whose ideas of enjoyment had been learned in free-and-easy resorts. Drunken men mvaded tl*e ball room, flourishing bubbling-hob ties of champagne. In the corridors free fights were of constant occurrence. Gam piers, book-makers and women dozed or made merry on the staircases. Never once did an accredited officer of the evening interfere to anybody’s knowledge. The policeman who were sober were helpless. They could not tell the drees coated waiters from the guests. By 1 o’clock most of the respectable element were making frantic and supperless efforts to get away. Even this privilege was denied them. A line extending from the coatrooms for 500 yards, and made up of some of the leading citizens of this town, surged for hours against the feeble and inadequate partitions of the coat-room. Gentlemen grew aDgry and desperate at the utter inadequacy of the arrangements. With torn coats and wrinkled shirt fronts, men whose names are known ail over the Union, fought their way toward their coats under the frequent clubs of the police, the jeers of the mob outside, and the pernicious activity of the pickpockets. It was 5 o’clock in the morning before the last battered and ragged guest joined his family at the doors and reached his hack.

“In its executive aspects the centennial ball was the worst of its sort ever known in the history of the city,” said a well Known man about town, Thursday. “The possibility of letting the attendants get at all the wine they wanted was enough to ruin any plans which might have been made. I left at 3a. m., # without my hat or coat. Two es the checkers inside the cloak room were drunk. I got my umbrella by paying $1 for one exchanged for it in my sight by the fellow who demanded the dollar. Of the ladies I met, one’s dreses was ruined by a plate of salad thrown over it by a drunken brute, and the shoulder of another was cut from a bottle which a stranger had broken upon it. I saw more respectable women insulted ip the supper room than I ever saw even accested at the French ball. I knQcked down a man who tried to kiss the daughter of a leading lawyer here.” The ticket-takers had no check placed upon them and there is no question they made lots of money letting in people who never Bhoulu have been there. The policemen lost their temper completely and cleared people out with their clubs. Hundreds of bottles of wine were passed out of doors and sold by waiters and others. One man was drunk, fell down stairs and was so badly hurt be had to be carried off in an ambulance. Many flags and potted plants were stolen, and some of the boxes were shockingly soiled after their first occupants had left. The supper-room was cleared by clubs shortly after 1 o’clock. The lights were turned out in the ballroom long before the crowd had left the building.

Dr. John W. Gibbs said at the Hoffman House, Thursday night: "I have just finished a letter oi congratulation to Mr. Ward McAllister. The ball as it went off was about the best answer he he could make to those who removed him. Mr. Stuyvesant Fish may know something about railroads, but be knows nothing of how to conduct a ball.”

THE CELEBRATION.

Alter the banquet the President held a reception in the city hall. At 5 o’clock he was driven to Mr. Morton’s residence. The ball at night at the Metropolitan opera house was a grand affair. On the 30th, services were held in all the churches of the city, the principal sermon being held at Bt. Paul’s, where Washington attended on the morning of his inauguration. The exercises were conducted by Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, D.D., LL.D., Bishop of New York* as the. services on the. day of Washington’s inauguration were conducted by the Bishop of New York, Right Rev. Samuel Provost. After the ceremonies in the church were concluded the Presidential part were driven down to the Sub-Treasury building, at the corner of Wall and Nassau streets, where the literary exercises of the day began. The crowd at the Sub-Treasury defied computation and the cheers which greeted the President upon his appearance on the platform, under the heroic statue of Washington fairly shook the foundation of the building itself. As soon as the Presidential party reached the platform, a shoot of applause rose from the assembled crowd. Archbishop Corrigan, wearing his carlet robes, was on the platform. Hamilton Fisk opened the exercises by introducing Elbridge T. Gerry as Chairman. Mr. Gerry said:

Fellow Citizens —One hundred years ago on this spot, George Washington, the first President of the United States, took his oath of office upon the Holy Bible. Thatsacred volume is here to-day silently attesting the basis upon which our Nation was constructed and the dependence of our people upon Almighty God. In the words, then, of one of the founders of the Government, “with hearts overflowing with gratitude to ottr Sovereign Benefactor for granting to us existence, for continuing it to: the present period, and foraecu mulating on us blessings spiritual and temporal through lite, may we with fervor beseech Him so to continue them as best to promote His glorv and onr welfare.” Mr. Gerry then introduced Rev. Richard F. Storrs, who delivered the invocation in-a—very clear voice. Clarence W. Bowen, was next introduced and read Whittier’s poem entitled “The Vow of Washington” written for the occasion. At the conclusion of the reading, Mr. Chauncy M. Depew, orator of the day was introduced. His address was lengthy and was followed with enthusiastic cheering in the midst of which President Harrison was introduced. He spoke as follows: \~

These proceedings are oi a very exacting character, and make it quite impossible that I should deliver an address on this occasion. At an early date I notified your committee that the program must not contain any address by me. The selection of Mr. Depew as the orator on this occasion made, further speech not only difficult but superfluous. II e has met the demand ot the occasion on its own high level. He has brought before us the incidents of the ceremonies of the great inauguration of Washington. „We seem to be a part of the admiring and almost adoring throng that filled these streets a hundred years ago, to greet the alwaysinspiring presence of Washington. He was the incarnation of duty and he teaches us to-day this great, lesson that those who would associate their name with events that shall outlive a century can only do so by the highest consecration to duty. wgg~tTko"the captain who goes to sea and throws overboard his cargo of rags that he may gain safetv and deliverance for his emperilled fellowmen. Washington seemed to come to the discharge of duties of his high office impressed with a great sense of his unfamiliarity with the position newly thrust upon him, modestly doubtful of his own ability, but trusting implicitly in his hopefulness of that God who rules the woi Id, presides in the? conscience oi nations and his power to control human events. We have made a marvelous progressda-material events since then, but the stately and enduring shaft we have built at the National capital at Washington, symbolizes the fact that he is still the first American citizen. After the President’s address, Archbishop Corrigan pronounced the benediction, which closed the literary features of the great celebration. The Presidential party then proceeded to Madison Square where they reviewed the military parade, which had started the moment the exercises at the SubTreasmj began. The parade was in three divisions, the, first consisting of regular troops, and a naval corps. The second division consisting of the order in which their respective States were admitted to the Union, with the Governors of each State at the head of its troops. The third division consisted of the Grand Army of the Republic, Loyal Legion, and other societies of soldiers.

The parade required six hours to pass a given point and was witnessed by one million people. The banquet at the Metropolitan Opera House at night was attended by 8,000 of more or less distinguished guests. Governor Hill welcomed the guests. The toasts were as follows: “Our people,” response by ExPresident Cleveland; “The Federal Constitution,” Chief Justice Fuller; “The United States of America” President Harrison; "The Presidency,” Ex-Presi-dent Hayes; “The Army and Navy,” Gen. W. T. Sherman; “Our Literature,” James Russell Lowell. In all there were twelve toaßts and responses. The fire works were the finest ever seen in New York. The civic and industrial parade of Wednesday was another grand affair. The President and party returned to Washington in the evening, reaching that point at 11 o’clock. ELSEWHXBB. The day was celebrated in nearly all the larger cities. Indianapolis had a large parade and a number of addresses were made by prominent citizens.

FURIOUS FOREST FIRES.

Wisconsin and Minnesota are Visited by Severe Conflagrations. A dispatch, on the 6th, from St. Paul, Minn., says that furious forest fires are raging in northern Minnesota and northern Wisconsin and an immense amount of damage has been done. For miles|on three sides of Duluth the fire rages and many country residences have been destroyed by the flames. On the Hermantown road, near Duluth, every dwelling for four miles has been destroyed. It is feared that some lives have been lost, as incoming farmers report a vast fire which is sweeping everything before it. A high wind is blowing, which makes it impossible for any headway to be made against the fire. It must simply burn antfl there is nothing more for it to destroy. In some places, too, ties on the track have burned out, making it daDgerous to move trains. South of Ashland for 160 miles the forests arc ablaze. On the Fon du Lac Indian reservation over s*t-, 000 worth of skidded logs went up. Other losses aggregating SIO,OOO also occurred on the reservation. Cumberland; Whu, is almost Wholly surrounded by fire. The losses aggregate $40,000. North of Grantsburg, Wis., the tire has swept the country, destroying everything in its path. Along the Northern Pacific, ih the ne’ghbornood of Cromwell, the Tamarack, forests and whatever else comes in the way is being burned. Near Hinckley, Minn., Thomas Campbell and Ernest Towel were surrounded by fire and finally their camp outfit yas burned about them. They took refuge on half an asre of plowed ground, but were terribly burned and will die. • An engineer on the night train on the St. Paul & Duluth, which arrived hero Sunday morning, says that on the run from Mission Check to near Duluth, sixty miles, there vyaa do need of a headlight, the tracks being lighted up by the flames. The damage to settlers and farmers and to lumbermen will be great.

THE STATE CAPITAL.

Secretary Johnson, oi the State Board of Health, returned, Thursday from a trip of inspection through Northern Indiana. He visited the Michigan City prison, the Logansport asylum and several county asylums. He speaks in high praise of the two institutions first named. fie describes the Carroll county poor asylum worst of all the bad places he has erisr seen. The buildings are old and dilapidated, the insane ward being “little more than a pen. There are six insane persons confined there, two of them are capable of taking care of themselves, and the others are not violent. Three of the Women are kept in a pen. One of them is a repulsive and indecent woman, but one was a woman whose face showed that she was not of the coarsest kind, and, she appeared t© be rather clean. The filth of the room in which they were kept, described in the only language that can be decentlv used, was simply horrible, and the odor arising from it was sickening. They are kept confined in the place constantly, and if thev were not insane, their surroundings would certainly make them so.

The State Medical Society met here Wednesday and Thursday. There was a very large attendance and much interest in the discussions and the various papers contributed. Dr. J. D. Gatch, of Lawrenceburg was elected President; Dr. 8. T. Yount, of Lafayette, Vice President Dr. E. S. Elder, Indianapolis, Secretary for the tenth consecutive term; Dr. T. C. Kennedy, Shelbyville, Assistant Secretary; Dr. Frank G. Ferguson, Indianapolis, ‘Treasurer; and Dr. J. F. Hibbard, of Richmond, Committee on Necrology. The attempt of Evansville to get rid of its Metropolitan police system is being watched here with considerable interest. There are a great many politicians aßd'Otlrerslrere who would not hesitate to go back to the old system, making the force partisan in every respect. It is not believed, however, any positive action will be taken at least until alter tbr fallelction. Stale Treasurer Lemcke regards it .s almost positive that the German Savings Bank of New York will accept the State loan, now that the Supreme G'ourt has decided the law under which action is taken as constitutional. « Superintendent Galbraith, of the Insane hospital, does not propose to resign for about a month, and .there is little inclination to force it earlier than that. The advertisement for sealed proposals from publishers for supplying school books under the new system have brought inquiries regarding various provisions of the law from publishing firms-in St. Paul, Chicago, St./Louis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Pitts- * burg, Cleveland, Danville, Ind., and Tyrone, Pa. There is some objection to the provision of the law requiring the publisher to ship the books into each county and wait for his pav until they are sold by the school trustees, in the meantime taking the risk of loss by fire or damage from other causes. Still, they seem willing to enter the competition for the contract. Circulars are now being sent direct to all of the 300 school-book publishers in the United States in order that all may be informed of the chance for them to submit their proposals if they care to do so.

THE SAMOAN CONFERENCE.

IleHel’ That the English Commissioner* Aroteaning- Toward Germany. The proceedings of the Samoan conference in Berlin, scanty as they have thus far been, are followed with great interest in England, and nearly all the London papers contain daily comment on the matters now being deliberated at the German capital. The Radical press is peisistent in its accusations that Lord Salisbury has leanings toward Ger many’s interests in the conference, and intimates that the German and English commissioners seem to work together it, tke conference, and are jointly opposed to the American commissioners. This, the Radical papers assert, is a grave blunder, to sacrifice American to German interests, and point out how much more England has and ought to have in common with the United Statee than with Germany. A Berlin dispatch says that an official denial is published of the report, printed in the Berliner Tageblatt, of Tuesday,. _ that, at Monday’s sitting of the Samoan conference, Mr. Kasson, one of the American commissioners, had asked whether a secret, treaty existed between England and Germany for a partition of the Tonga and Samoan islands, and that Prince Bismarck and Sir Edward Malet, the British embassador, had categoricallv denied ,the existence of such a treaty.

The delegates to the conference, Thursday, attended the ceremony of blessing the colors of the Guards of Potsdam Ihe commissioners weie presented to Emperor William. The Emperor conversed in a friendly manner with all the commissioners,, who were delighted with their reception. Mr. Kasson, one of the American commissioners to the Samoan conference, had a long interview with Prince Henry, brother of the Emperor, while at Potsdam, Thnsrday. The Berlin correspondent of the News says: 'Perhaps Tamasese will be appoint - ed Vice Kinfrtjf Bomog, bit Germany will decline to allow Mataafa any official position.” It is stated that Germany will consent that Malietoa be reinstated king of Samoa provided the V. 8. Government purchases the German plantations or guarantees payment by Samoans who purchase them". Germany will further waive her demands for the punishment of Mattaafa, if the relative* of the' German’s who were slain are amply compensated. Germany will not claim political preponderance. Where Trains Never Telescope. liartbn'B Vineyard Herald. Every time wp read of a railroad horror we are thankful that the Maltha's Vineyard Railroad owns only one train. No fear oi collision can afflict the travelers on our road.