Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — Page 2

She fjlcpublican. Geo. £. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER. - INDIANA

IT rs said that a curious shrinkage of the lakes, seas and rivers of the world is going on. Itis reported that Henry M. Stanley is to be married in June to Miss Dorothey Tennant, of London. We hope it is true, and that Mr, Stanley wiH now settle down and quit gadding about. An official estimate sets down the number of wolves in Russia at 170,000; it is further stated that the loss caused by the destruction of sheep and swine by wolves is so great that it can not be even approximately estimated. It rs said the law regulating ohild labor in the factories of New York, is generally observed. The law prohibit the employment of children under twelve years of age, and limits the labor of all minors to sixty hours each week. The measure was not intended as a hardship upon employers.

J. Bryan Grimes, of Pitt county, N. C., had planted thirty-five acres in Irish potatoes, and one night when he thought there was going to be fro6t to kill his potatoes, which were twelve Inches high, he built log heaps about his field and kept them burning during the night, and next morning his potatoes were untouched by the frost. A colored man named Joseph Saunders was employed to dig a well for a farmer near Augusta, Me. The farmer beat him down to half wages, but after going ten feet down the digger struok a jug with $750 in gold in it and took a skip. The farmer then dug twentytwo feet more, nearly broke his back, and didn’t hit anything but stones. Detroit Free Press. Barbarism is doomed. A recent battle between the French and Dahomians in Africa, resulted in the complete overthrow of the Dahomians, with a loss of 1,500 lives. The French loss was fifteen killed and seventy-two wounded. The power of civilization over barbarism is nowhere better illustrated than in the armies of civilization as against those of barbarism.

It is putting an explorer to a crucial test to take his book back to the people he describes and translate it for their benefit. That is what has been done with the description by an Englishman of the cannibal feasts and other remarkable practices of savages on an island near New Guinea. Sir William McGregor could not find any evidences of cannibal feasts. A few months ago he translated the earlier visitor’s description, and read it to the natives in their own tongue. Some of them, he 6ays, roared with laughter. Others^took the matter very seriously, and said the language was bitter and the story false. If this sort of thing is kept up it will be severe on that class of travellers who are bound to tell a good story any way, even if they have to evolve it from their inner consciousness.

The first presentation of the Passion Play at Oberaumergan, Prussia, was given recently, and will be repeated at intervals until September. The 4,000 seats of the theater were filled and several more thousands were finable to obtain admission. The centre of attraction was Josef Maier's rendition of Christ, Never before has the play attracted so large a multitude (from all quarters of the globe. This is due to the fact that the Bavarian government haß absolutely forbidden any performance after this year, because the ecclesiastical authorities and *ll decent people have come to regard the affair as a desecration of religion. The last performance of the play look place in 1880, when there crowded to this remote village a sensation-seeking laudience from all parts of the earth. Li railroad has since been constructed to the place, and the people that are now there are of the same class that visited there ten years ago. The origin of the play, the last relic of the mystery dramas of the middle ages, dates back to 1633, when a pestilence fell upon the district, and the inhabitants vowed that at its stay they would act the play decendially. This resolve was kept, and only once—in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war was the representation discontinued. It was. however, repeated in 1871, ostensibly as a thanksgiving for the peace, and in 1880 it drew to Qber-Ammegau the greatest multitude of sight-seerers ithat ever collected in the place, greatly to the scandal of European Christian society. Great but unavailing efforts were made this year to induce the authorities to interdict it. Over 500 (actors take part in the drama, and nine [hours will be consumed in each production. •

THE HEWS OF THE WEEK

Seven thousand New York cloak makers are locked out. The Vermont Republicans nominated Carrol S. Paige for Governor. Washington ice dealers have combined and raised the price to one cent a pound. A general strike of switchmen for higher wages was inaugurated at Cleveland on the 16th. A legislative committee reports favea--ably a proposition to remove the Louisiana capital to New Orleans. The Cincinnati carpenters’ strike is extending to the other building trades, and many mou are work. The Farmers's Alliance of Miiinesota has decided to contest the State and Con: gressional elections this fall. 4^ —<= Charles F. Pustner, of Troy, 0., being threatened with total blindness, escaped that fate by committing suicide. Fire at the Cincinnati Rak Leather Company’s tannery, Cincinnati, caused damage to the amount of SIOO,OOO. Mrs. Sylvester Bowman, residing near Whltesville, Muhlenburgcounty, Ky., was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Peter Jackson made practical use of his muscle at San Francisco, whipping a dozen toughs who assaulted him on the street.

The Millers’ National Association, in session in Minneapolis, unanimously indorsed the Butterworth anti-option bill. The Park National Bank, Chicago, closed its doors od the 20th. No reason is given for the failure. It did not do a very large business. Rev. M. Lockwood, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Cincinnati, has been nominated by the Prohibitionists for Secretary of State. A freight train fell over a precipice on the Western North Carolina Road, thirtytwo miles from Asheville, and three trainmen were killed. The safe of Lewis M. Bliler, bookmaker at Kansas City, was cracked by burglars who secured $2,000 in cash, SBOO worth of diamonds and about S3OO in notes. The Masonic Temple of Chicago will erect an eighteen-story building, to cost $2,000,000. Its height from the street level will be 240 feet. Commencement exercises at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich., Monday, were marked by the absence of a graduating class, owing to suspensions having been made for hazing. If New York failes to raise the money for the Grant monument by Sept. 1, a number of ex-confederates propose to raise the amount by subscriptions, exclusively from southerners.

A near 'Wilkesbarre, Pa., punished his eleven-year-old son by tying him to a cross and allowing him to remain for seven hours. The child is not expected to live and the father is under arrest, j Owing to the refusal of the Democratic State Convention of Maine to adopt a license plank in the platform, there is a threatened revolt, and a call for a convention of all those believing in local option and license. The New England Baptist Missionary Society rejected resolutions on temperance that contained quotations from Ingersoll. A resolution was adopted denouncing the clergy as largely Responsible for the 6ppression of. the colored man. A Belgian iron firm has offered tosupply the structural iron for the Court House at Minneapolis 25 per cent, cheaper than could be furnished by Pittsburg manufacturers. This firm has already secured contracts at Houston and Austin, Tex.

A conference of the Finance Ministers of the various German States will shortly be held for the purpose ref discussing and agreeing upon the means of defraying the military expenses of their respective governments, as well as the contribution of each State to the maintenance of the Imperial military establishment. - While fifteen young ladies from the Schuylkill Seminary, at Fredericksburg > Pa., were on their way to the railroau station, at Jamestown, in a coach drawn by four horses, the animals became unmanageable and suddenly plunged down a twenty foot embankment, the coach and its occupants fal 1 ing on top of the animals. All the ladies were more or less seriously injured, and the coachman badly trampled. A tornado passed near Cornell, 111., in the afternoon of the 20th, wrecking everything in its pathway. Several persons were fatally injured. A cloud hurst at Bloomington did heavy damage. Northeastern Kansas was also the scene of an electrical storm, and the damage was great. Four persons were killed near Dixon, 111. Charles Morrison was struck by lightning and killed near Shoals, Ind . At Mt. Carmel, 111., it.was one.,of the severest rain storms ever seen in that town. A scandal is rumored in connection with the location of ’lie World's Fair. Mr. Leland, who owns property abutting, .and w’.o is opposed to the Fair beiug held in Lake Front Park, says he was offered $1,000,000 to withhold his objection, but h e refuses to state who made the offer. Riparian right to the locality in dispute has qong been a bone of contention. It is believed the offered bribe was made by one of the narJes at interest, with a view of such action as would more clearly establish his claim.

The most destructive wreck, both in life and property, known to thp history of the Western North Carolina Railroad, occurred at Melrc*>© Station, thirty two miles from Asheville, on the 17th. From the apex of Saluda mountain to Melrose, a distance of more than three miles, there is a fall of fully 600 4 aet. This fact has made the railroad authorities especially careful at this pointr,rend an engine is kept constantly there to help all trains up and down the mountain. The track was very wet when a coc. train started down, and soon after beginning the dec.ent it became evident tuat the twelve loaded cars were too much fir both engines to hold with all brakes ,e*> and the speed gradually quickened under the heavy pressure until a speed of sevc .Ay-five miles an hour was reached, when the trftcus spread and the entire outfit plunged headlong down the [mountain ilh a herrVble crash, burying beneath the cross-ties and earth the brave .. iws woo had stood to their posts. The ■■•s* to the company in engines and cars

alone will snob $75,000. Both engineers and firemen were killed and the conductor, brakemen and flagmen dangerously injured.

FOREIGN.

Two more Chinamen were mobbed on the Mexican border Monday. Twentyfour Celestials are od trial at Frisco, Ariz., for trying to beat the exclusion act. Fritz Dubois was hanged in the jail yard at Quebec, on the 20th, for the murder in February last, of his wife, his two children and his mother-in-law, whom he hacked to pieces in a most brutal manner with an ax. Hordes of famished wolves are overrunning Austrian Galicia, destroying thou sands of sheep and many larger animals. In a number of cases men have been at tacked by the ferocious beasts and devour-* ed. In some regions it is extremely dangerous for the inhabitants to go abroad, and the people have organized large bands of armed men to exterminate the brutes. Lieutenant Baron Von Gravenereutb, who was connected with \Vlssmann’s:expedition in Africa, has written a letter, in which he says he is painfully surprised a the terms of the Anglo-German settlement in regard to African territory, especially that part of the agreement providing for the surrender of Zanzibar to the British. He says he considers Zanzibar as the key to Africa.

M® s Mary Anderson was married on the morning of the 17th to Mr. Antonio Nevarro, in the Roman Catholic Chapel of St. Mary’s, in Hampstead, London. The wedding was strictly private. Miss Anderson was driven from the house of her step-father, Dr. Griffin, to the church in a close carriage. The curtains were drawn so that no glimpse was caught of the bride till she left the carriage to enter the sanctuary. The marriage ceremony was performed in as quiet and simple a manner as possible. There was no choir, the only accompanying music being that of the organ. Only immediate friends of the bride and groom were present.

INDIANA FARMERS.

They Meet, Organize and Adopt Resolutions. Indiana farmers met in convention, at Indianapolis, on the 19th inst , to organize a State League. All farmers’ organizations in Indiana were represented, the large attendance being something of a surprise even to the delegates. The convention was made up of earnest, intelligent men, keenly alive to their own interests, and capable?, as developments showed, of expressing their ideas in a forcible way. The political significance of the meeting bears chiefly on legislative matters, and the wiser heads openly said they were not convened to threaten any party, but to advance their own interests. The majority present represented the jFarmers’ Alliance, the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association, the Grange and other bodies. The delegates declared that they were unalterably opposed to the liquor traffic; demanded that United States Senators be elected by the people; demanded the repeal of the law 7 which authorizes County Commissioners to call special elections for the purpose of voting aid to corporations; demanded the passage of a law making the fees and salaries of county officers proportionate to the amounts similar services and responsibilities would command in the open market; demanded the passage of a law making the legal rate of interest proportionate to rate paid capital invested in agriculture and other productive industries; demanded that the Government should loan its credit directly to the people on land or its products as security, at not to exceed 2 per cent- interest. It was also resolved that there should be a law which will secyre equal and exact justice to all children of the State in the apportionment of the State school revenue; that the public printing should be let to the lowest responsible bidder; that there shall be a change in the law which will secure to the debtor an equitable exemption from taxation against bona fide indebtedness ; favoring the passage of the Butterworth bill by Congress; declaring that the farmers’ organizations 'of Indiana be authorized to select one delegate for every 10,600 or fraction thereof to look after legislation needed; that the free coinage bill should be made a law.

In conclusion, it was resolved, with much enthusiasm, that. Whereas, We can much more certainly and with ~less expense secure such legislation as the condition of our interests demands by placing men in sympathy with our purposes in the halls of Congresst therefore be it Resolved, That we demand of the lead ing political parties that they place such men on their tickets for Representatives and Senators, and that where such nominations ai-e made we pledge them our persistent support, regardless of past political affiliations, and Resolved, further, That when the political parties fail to nominate men identified with our interests by occupation, we deem it our duty and pledge ourselves to nominate such men independently, and strive by all honorable means to their election.

ORIGINAL PACKAGE MEASURE.

Points That Trouble the House Judiciary Committee. There seems to be a very wide divergence of opinion held by members of the House committee on judiciary respecting the propriety of adopting the Wilson original package amendment to the interstate-com-merce law. Some of the stanchest prohibitionists in the House are notsoeager for the amendment as they were some time since, believing that its adoption will result in the final overthrow of the prohibL tion law, and then the high-license principle appears to be gaining ground sq rapidly that the amendment may fail in the House, even though it should bo reported. The most weighty objection laid, against the Wilson amendment is that it carries the State back to the days of confederation and gives them too much Stale’s rights power; that if it should be adopted there would bo a constant centralisation of power in the States, eventually resulting disastrously to the federal interests of tb« country.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Hartford City, will soon have a gas plant. Warsaw .wants the Gold Spike railway shops. Marion ladies are organizing a humane society. . - Midge is destroying the Jackson county oats-crop. Car wheel works will soon be located at Anderson. ..—^ •There are fifty-four life convicts in the Prison North. Highway robbery is unpleasantly common near Elkhart. The complaint against the census enu meration is general. , , A foreign syndicate is trying to purchase the Bedford quarries. Richmond will-celebrate the Fourth with a parade of its industries. Sparrows have been ravaging wheat fields near Jeffersonville.

Anderson has secured the Ditridge glass factory, of New Brighton, Pa. Burglars stole $36 from-the J. M. & I. depot at Peru at noon on the 20th. A dangerous type of flux is reported in Madison township. St. Joe county. The storm, Saturday night, did great damage in many parts of the State. Contract has been awarded for a new school house at Peru, to cost $17,500, Three magnificent steamers are being built at Madison for traffic on the Missouri. Burglars plundered the safe in JohnT. Nohrman’s store, at Ireland, securing $l5O. Wheat fields in Boone county have developed wonderfully under the recent rains. Farmers near Hortonviile are using the oil from the well therefor painting pur poses.

Daniel Culp, of Huntington, was frightfully stung while trying to hive a swarm of bees. Terre Haute is advocating the removal of front tences. What will the young ladies lean on. J. D. Carter, Jr., of Wabash, presented Purdue University with a fine blooded Jersey bull. The postoffice at Woodbury, N. J., was robbed on the 20th. One of the burglars was captured. The 128th and 130th Indiana regiments will hold a joint reunion at Logansport, beginning Aug. 6. Albert Houston, while unloading stone for a bridge abutment near Gosport, fell into the water and was drowned.

Hugh Sheeks, of Orange county, swallowed carbolic acid, mistaking the drug for paregoric, and narrowly escaped death. Hiram Marling, who settled in Jackson county seventy-one years ago, and was one of its valued citizens, died Sunday of la grippe; Burglars secured $1,600 in securities, three watches and SSO in cash by cracking the safe of V. D. Miller, at Laporte, on the 17tb. The Farmers’ Alliance of Greene county has passed strong resolutions demanding a reduction in fees and salaries of public officers. Burglars robbed the safe of V. D. Miller’s saloon at Lagrange; carrying off $1,500 in notes and mortgages,“three watches and S7O cash. Aurora is proud of a turkey gobbler which hatched fourteen turkeys out of sixteen eggs, and, is taking great care of the brood. The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles long and four miles wide, and the w6lls average twenty-five barrels daily.

Jasper Hill, offFrankfort,under sentence for twelve years to the penitentiary, attempted suicide, Wednesday evening, with broken glass, but failed. Lottie, the’ soven-y ear-old daughter of Adolph Geisman, of Ft. Wayne, was im paled on an iron fence, jjn the 18th, while playing in an elevated position. S. L. Rowan, recently sent to the Indian, apolis Work House for petit larceny, was formerly a prosperous citizen of Monticello. His downfall is due to drunkenness. Mont. Welch, of Derby, committed suicide on Saturday by blowing out his brains. Several years ago Welch killed his father, for which he was sentenced to prison. While Royal Cathcart and Miss Sugbee, of Bristol, were driving homeward after nightfall, they were met by highwaymen who robbed them of their possessions. Many Terre Haute saloonkeepers refuse to pay the new $230 license, doubting the validity of the ([ordinance. The marshal proposes to close them up, and a hard fight is anticipated. :.L ... Miss Etta Rollins, of Laporte, who swallowed paris green some days ago, died Sunday. Remarks derogatory to her character and emanating from idle gossip was the inciting cause.

Two men were killed in a [railway acrice it on the Baltimore & Ohio, at Child’s Station, on the 20th. Among the injured were Bishop J. J. Keane, rector of Catholic University, Washington. Charles L. Cla> ke, of Wolcott, committed suicide this week, the result of two unhappy marriages and illegal complica tions with a third woman. He was aged forty-eight, and an ex-soldier. David Spurgeon and Jacob Fiddler Were arrested for criminally assaulting Mrs.' Aun Williams, of Edinburg, and in the trial Mr. Fiddler was acquitted, while Spurgeon was placed under bonds. Phillip and Josephine Fraglich, of Fort \Vayne[ are under arrest, charged wtth abusing a twosyear-oid son of the woman by a former marriage, and with attempting to drown the little one in the canal. The late David A. Jones, of Chicago, formerly an Indianian, bequeathed SIO,OOO with which to remodel the Presbyterian Church at Rockville, already a handsome structure. The work will soon begin. Johnnie Shortle, aged seventeen, one of the promising young men of Kokomo, was drowned on the 14th while bathing in the river at that place. At the last meeting of the Knights of St. John Society he was elected President

John Wilmer cashed his pension check at Cannclton, and soon after disappeared. Several days later his dead body was found in the river, with his money gone and wounds upon the bead, indicating that he had been murdered. Michael Mills, of a welNto-. do farmer, went to bed in good health on Saturday night. About midnight hid wife was awakened by his loud “snoring.” She is

spoke to him about it dud then went to sleep again. In the morning, when she awoke, he was cold in death. Seeing a .dangerous looking storm was approaching, a merchant of Anderscm gathered his family about the cellar door, then he climbed upon the roof of his house and ordered that when he gave the word his wife and children must disappear like m01e5.,..-The storm sheered off, »nd the merchant was prevented from making bis experiment a shining success. “ ™ Gottlied Seifert, of Terre Haute, died Thursday evening under peculiar circumstances. On the sth inst. he was slightly injured in a runaway accident, and a dog licked a bruise on his hand while it was still fresh. While he continued at work until Sunday. last, his condition grew worse, and finally he was confined to his bed, the symptoms indicating hydrophobia, tetanus or lockjaw. He suffered untold agony. There is a belief that his death was due to absorption of saliva while the dog was licking his injured hand. Mine Inspector Williams, of the third anthracite inspection district, has just completed a table of the operations of the coal mines for the last twenty years. During that time there were 110,352,715 tons of coal mined. The smallest output was in 1871, when 3,000,000 tons were mined, and the largest in 1888. when 8,684,403 tons were taken from the earth. There were 1,204 men killed in the many disasters during the twenty years, the largest number killed being 1884—87. The smallest number of tons, of coal mined for each life lost was 91,655 tons in 1886. The largest number of day 9 worked any year was 233 in 1888.

Jasper Hill, the elder of the notorous Hill brothers, was given twelve year’s in the penitentiary, at Frankfort, the 18th for the part he took in the attempted robbery of old farmer Durbin, one night last May. The Hills had undertood that the old man, who is eighty years old, had secreted about his house SBOO. The attempted robbery was made known to the officers and the gang was captured while the leader was holding a revolver in the old man’s face. The others will probably escape with a lighter sentence. The same evens ing of his arrest Hill made an effort to end his existence by swallowing pounded glass. The most disastrous n'railroad wreck known to Anderson occurred just east of the crossing of the Big Four and Panhandle r illroads on the evening of the 18th. Wha over the cause, thirteen cars were suddenly jerked out of the west-bound merchant freight of forty cars and piled in a promiscuous, splintered heap on the track and at either side, resulting in the destruction of many thousand dollars’ worth of property, including cars, pianos, furniture, buggies, lime, powder, paper, wire, nails, etc. But one person was injured, a brakeman, who was only slightly hurt iu jumping from the train.

THIRTY LIVES LOST.

An explosion of fire-damp in the Hill Farm mines, at Dunbar, Pa., on the 16th resulted in the death of thirty miners. At 7 o’clock the gang turned, in at the mines the smaller gang drifting off to the left, while the larger, some thirty-five in number, drifted to the right and descended some eight hundred feet from the surface and at least a mile from the opening. These two drifts are connected, but the connection is from the main stem, some half mile from the entrance. The mine, it seems’, had been somewhat troubled with water, find an air shaft had been drilled from the surface to the juncture of the right and left shafts, where the water seemed most abundant. As the miners branched off from this point they knew that an air-hole had been drilled there that had not yet been broken into the mine, but they did not know that the shaft was to be broken into that day, this shaft, by the way, being a six -inch hole. A miner named Kerwin had been left in the right drift near where that branch joined the mine’s exit, and in the course of his labors broke into the perpendicular shaft. The moment this was broken into a flood of water gushed out, and Kerwin and a man named Landy standing by yelled out for some one to save the men in the right drift, as the water poured down the hill in a stream, and he feared they would drown. A heavy flow of fire-damp followed the rush of waters and soon igniting, an explosion resulted with the fatal conclusion as above reported, The usual sad scenes of those awful disasters, so often recorded, were Repeated in all the details. The excitement at Dunbar, Pa., was intense on the 19th, when the report came from the patient diggers away down in the shaft where the miners are entombed, that a faint ’’pick, pick” could be heard from the inside, and the rescuers were inspired with renewed vigor and fresh courage.

CUBA AND AMERICAN FLOUR.

Secretary Blaine received the following telegram from Chairman lmbs, of the National Millers’ Association, in session at Minneapolis; It is reported that an additional duty of 80 cents per barrel will be imposed upon American flour by Cuba on July 1. This would prohibit any possible flour trade between the United States and Cuba. The millers are consequently agitated, hence your prompt telegraphic reply is earnestly solicited. To which Mr. Blaine replied:

“We have no official adviceat the State Department of the eighty cents additional duty on flour in Cuba. If levied, it will make the duty $3.31 per barrel—evidently intended by Spain to be prohibitory. The whole subject is within the power and wisdom of Congress. It has been constantly said there for the last six months that the Western fanners demand the unconditional repeal of the sugar duty. It Is within the power of Western farmers, by encouraging of reciprocity, to secure, in exchange ,for the repeal of this duty, the free admission of their breadstuffs and provision into the markets of of 40,'000,000 of people, including Cuba. “In my opinion this is the most profltaoie policy for tho Western farmer. Free sugar in the United States should be ac companied by free breadstuffs, and provisions in Spanish America:”

WASHINGTON.

From reports to the State Department it< appears that the importation of Americsp.' pork is prohibited by the followi*|>‘ countries: Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy and the Ottoman Dominion*. It is subject to inspection in Spain. American potatoes are shut out of Germany and Spain 5 The House Committee on Postoffl ces an Postroads has postponed the further eonsideration of the postal telegraph bill mMP the next, session. * The President Friday vetoed two bills, one allowing counties in Arizona to increase their indebtedness that they may aid railroads ; the other a bill providing transfer of lands by certain Indians. r ;

WILL POACH IN BEHRING SEA.

Canadian Sealers Ordered to Enter Forbidden Waters—British War Ships W Protect Them. * ° The sealing schooner Lillie sailed from Victoria on the 16th for Behring sea, where she will hunt for seals. A reporter met her owner just before she sailed, and was informed that he had given the captain positive orders to hunt in forbidden waters. Other owners have also given their vessels similar instructions, and word haa been sent by vessel to schooners cruising on the west coast of Vancouver’s island to proceed to Behring sea. The full Victoria fleet will enter the sea. H. M. S. Amphion, which ran on a rock while conveying Lord' Stanley from Victoria to Vancouver soma months ago, will leave Esquimau dry-dock in a few days, aDd there is a settled conviction among sealing men and others interested, that she has orders from the imperial government to cruise in Behring sea. Preparations are being made for a long cruise and, although, of course, her destination is kept secret, enough is known to warrant the belief that she has been ordered in Behring sea, and look after the" interests of any Victoria sealing vessel which may enter disputed waters. Naval officers, moreover, are looking for some active work this summer. Sealers, however, know that there is no absolute certainty of their receiving protection, and are prepared for losses, while they hope for the best. Exciting news from Behring sea may be looked for about the latter part of July. -------

MR. BLAINE WRITES A LETTER.

The Secretary oV State Says a Word as to Free Sugar. A letter from Secretary Blaine to exMayor Cony, of Augusta, Me., says; “You 1 " are in error in supposing that I am opposed to sugar being admitted free of duty. My objection is not to free sugar, but to the proposed method of making it free. If, in the pendiug tariff bill, sugar is placed upon the free list, we give to certain countries a free market for $95,000,000 of their products, while they are not asked to open their makets to the free admission of a single dollar products. We ought to have, in exchange for free sugar from certain countries, a free market for, breadstuffs and provisions, besides various fabrics from all parts of our country. In short, we ought to secure, in return for free sugar, a market fdr $60,000,000 ©r $70,000,000 worth of our own products. It will not require reciprocity treaties to secure this great boon. The tariff bill can contain all the necessary conditions, The legislative power is able to secure the desired end.

“Within the last twenty years v?e have given the countries south of us fi-ee admission for nearly $60,000,000 worth of their products without receiving a penny’s advantage in exchange. If sugar be now made unconditionally free we shall have given to theLatin-American countries free admission for $150,000,000 of their products It is time, I think, to look out for some reciprocal advantage. We are a very rich nation, but not rich enough to trade on hat unequal basis.” Patents were granted Tuesday to Indiana inventors as follows: C. A. Bertsb, Cambridge City, punching and shearing machine; C. F. Darnell, Indianapolis, gate : hinge; Jonas Form wood, Goshen, picket swing machine; J. W. Hanlon, Michigan' City, gate; C. D. Harris, Indianapolis, thermostalic valve regulator; T. Hauck,, curtain fixtures; G. K. Hubbard, Fort Wayne, section press; B. G. Hubbard, corn product, and flaked corn product; C. M. Kilor, wire tightener; N W Myers, Lamaka, trestle; S. E. Pheister, Tippecanoe, car coupling; J. Quindry, Fort Branch, folding carriage top; Godfriod Schumacher, Morris, movable frog for railway crossing; J. W. Stone, Thorntown, gate.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, June I 9 1890 GRAIN. I j Wheat. Com. Oat*, j | i 7" ! , Indianapolis,. 2 r’d 88 1 w 33M 2 w 29>, 3 r’d 83 2ye 33% , Chicago 2 r’d s*'/ t 34 28 ! . 56 Cincinnati..... 2 r’d 88 37 30 48 Bt. Louis 2 r’d 87 32 29 60 ' New York 2 r’d 94 41 33 y, 65 Baltimore 88 41 35 Philadelphia. 2 r’d 92 40 34 Clover Hoed • T01ed0........... myi 36 29 825 1 Detroit. Iwh 89 S 5& 30>. * Minneapolis: 87 ( Louisville ... LIVE STOCK. Cattle —Export grades $4.4004.75 Good to choice shippers 4.00(34.35 Common to medium 5hipper5....a3.25(a)3.75 Stockers, 500 to 850 ft, 3.2503.50 Good to choice heifers 3.25rg4.75 Common to medium heifers..... 2.50,u>3.00. Good to choice cows.. 2.90£)3.20 Fair to medium cows 2.25(g|2.70 Hogb— Heavy 3.7503.85 Light 3.7003.75 Mixed 3.0503.75 Heavy roughs 2.7503.25 Sheep-Good to choice 4.00«r4.7c Fa rto medium .'3.2504.25 MISCELLANEOUS. . Eggs 10c. Butter, Creamery 18020; Dairy 10, Good Country 70. Feathers, 35c. Beeswax, 18020; Wool 80035, Imwasbed 22; Poultry, Hens 7}<c. Turkeys ho roosters 3 clover seed 3.2503.50.