Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1890 — Page 2

gjlfet jteyutlxcaa. 610. E. Marshall, Publisher. BBNSSELAEfi. . INDIANi

If a man could see himself as others see him he would pull down the blinds. Greece has been looking in vain for a. public executioner for six years. Ezra Leech,' a farmer - of Newton County, Miss., discovered SIO,OOO in gold while ditching in his held a few days ago. '

It is said that 80,000 strangers remain over in New York every night, furnishing plenty of business for the 125 hotels in the city. The salary of the infant King of Spain is $1,250,000 a year. Stacks of men in the United States would do the work for half the money. When Stanley’s bride begins to unpack her trunk at some of the summer resorts on the Congo the natives of the Dark Continent will make some startling discoveries themselves. They do not *’smile” nor ‘ irrigate” nor “take a snorter” any more in lowa and Kansas* They simply “absorb an original package.” Thanks to the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court.

The medical profTession has just learned that the only safe way to administer chloroform is to apply the sponge, when the patient is already asleep. Burglars have known this for a long time. ~ ~ —' -- It is said that fifteen years ago. the Spring was similar to the one this year, and that the crops harvested hen have never been equalled since. Farmers are, therefore, hopeful that a similar result may follow this year. It is a common sight in New York to see well-dressed men running or skipping the rope in Central Park, Exercise is the cheif aim of these simple diversons, which are practised mostly by brokers, lawyers and club men who are becoming stout.

“You shouldn’t find fault with my’tomper,” said she. “When wo were married, you know you took me for better or worse.” “I know that” was the reply, “but I had a hope of striking something like a general average.”—Washington Post.

David Dudley Field says there are now six problems before the American people: Honest government, woman "suffrage, the negro race, the rights of labor, the government of cities and the government of corporations. What about the tariff and the currency questions?

The liquor people who are particularly irritated at Sir Wilfred Lawson's denunciations of them in the English parliament have been having an amusing revenge upon him by sending letters in his name to wine merchants and brewers ordering prodigious quantities of liquors, presumably for the consumption of temperance BaronetsSir Wilfred has been kept busy refusing alcoholic consignments and has had publicly to repudiate his supposed backsliding.

A curiods fact came ou t at the meeting of the Actuarial Society of America the other day. It was shown by the reports of twenty-nine life insurance companies that the epidemic of “la grippe” cost them over a million dollars in the aggregate. The disease prevailed during the first quarter of V 181H). and the deaths in excess of the corresponding period in the previous year were about twenty thousand. Of course this is only a partial account, as many more persons who were not insured died of the disease than were insured. But even this death rate was little less than we have in any statistics of actual loss in war ••La Grippe” was thus a far more terrible visitation than was realized at the time. Dr. John F» Sherman, of New York, is endeavoring to annul his marriage with Matilda L. Stowell on the ground that he was not in possession of l}is faculties at tho time. He says he in a drunken stupor from the effects of beer which Matilda had purchased. He did not answer to the minister’s questions and the lattei ;took silence for consent. Matilda the ring, paid the minister, and when the minister asked them to join hands she leaned forward and took hold of John's hand. -She stood and John sat in a dazed condition during the ceremony. So John's brother «ays. j Of course, John claims he wasn’t awal*e of just what was going on. but he'll find it difficult to cohvincc ■a jury that he didn't slap the preacher ton the back and’ utter those familiar I words, "Zhaa allrite, ole nua zha lallvita T ahnv 11 wiu I|W| 4

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The International base ball'league has oollapsed. The South Dakota Independents nom> inated a full ticket. Agnes Baldwin killed a man on her claim at Devil’s Lake, N. D. The actual reduction of the public debt in June was $30,685,726. Six men were killed in a collision at Bir» mingham, Ala, on the 9th. Four men were killed in a railroad acci*. dent near Memphis on the 9th; Three lives were lost by the capsizing of a tug on Lake Champlain on the Cth, ~ Win. Muldoon, in an interview, calls John L. Sullivan a coward and a liar. Missouri Republican ‘State Convention will be held at Jefferson City, Aug, 35. Buffalo shows up with only 350,133 population, and the citizens want a recount. At Doy’s Gap, Ala., Dr. John Monroe killed his four children and then committed suicide.

John Roth, a pauper in the County Hospi tal at Galena, 111., has eaten no food for eight weeks. The Cincinnati ice men met Tuesday and advanced the price of ice 15 cents per hundred and $2 per ton. A call has been issued for a State convention of Ohio farmers, to be held in Columbus, August 13.

The lottery bill passed the Louisiana House, notwithstanding the Governor’s veto—yeas 68, nays 81. , The Educational Association met at St. Paul on the 9th. There were from 12,000 to 15,000 teachers present.

Arkansas Republicans met at Little Rock bn the 9th and nominated -a State ticket. The administration was endorsed. The brewery of the Henry Miller Brewing Company at Philadelphia was damaged by fire this morning to the extent of SIOO,, 000. At Murphy, Ga., Charles Gould, while drunk, attempted to whip his wife- and was stabbed by her with a dagger and killed. Dr. Charles Barlow, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., has fasted for forty*.five days, and has reduced his weight from 249 to 201 pounds. At Danbury, Conn., two men entered a jewelry store, overpowered the clerk and stole $9,000 worth of jewelry and diamonds and S7OO cash,.

A heavy wind and rain storm visited New Orleans on the 7th, doing great damage. The custom house was damaged very considerably. A Cleveland judge has decided that the ordinance; closing barber shops oh Sunday is not in conformity with the State law on Sunday labor. A wealthy Chinaman of San Francisco has purchased 15,000,000 acres of land on the isthmus of Tehauntepec, which he Fro. poses to oolcinize for China, A mob of strikers took possession of West Superior, Wis., on the 9th. The strikers attacked some men who were at work and two of them were badly injured. The refinery of the Southern Cotton Seed Oil Mills, near Atlanta, burned yes' terday. More than ‘200,000 gallons of oil were lost by the bursting of tanks. Loss, *IOO,OOO. A call has been issued for a negro Democratic National Convention to meet at At. lanta, Ga., some time in October, and take action on the Federal election bill now in Congress. Fire in the Sante Fe coal yards, at Ar gentine, Kan., Sunday, destroyed 300 tons of coal and two ice houses containing several hundred tons of ice. Loss, *15,009; fully insured. A fight has been begun in Chicago between the brewers of the English syndicarejfnd,those who refused to go into the combination. Beer has been cut to *3.50 a barrel_from *6. Ex-State Treasurer Archer came into court, at Baltimore, on the 7th, pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzlement of the funds of the State and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. An excursion train from Texas bound to Milwaukee, vas wrecked at Manteno, 111., on the Illinois Central on the morning of the 7th. Four passengers, members of the Knights of Pythias were killed. A cloud-burst in Richland County, Wis., destroyed four mill dams and wrecked an iron bridge at Eagle Mills. The St. Paul railroad was so badly damaged that traffic will be prevented for at least five days. Charles La Grange confessed at Hutchinson. Kas., Menaay, that he married first a woman at Sedgwick, Kas., and five days after married another woman at Hutchinson. He was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. t jvernor Nicholls vetoed, on the 7th, the Louisiana Lottery bill, taking occasion at the same time to denounce tho measure in strongest terms. lie declared thftif the bill should become a law ‘t would dishonor and degrade the State.

The striking cloak makers of New York are out of fund; and credit. There was but *13.15 in the treasury of tho union at noon of the {>th, and several hundred hungry mcr waiting for relief. The leaders express a determination to continue the fight for more wages. A special from Emporia, Kan., says the Farmeis’ Alliance and other kindred organizations united in one of the grandest demonstrations ever held in Emporia. The procession was five miles long, and 30,000 people were in attendance. No such turn out of farmers was ever before witnessed in this part of the State. The speakers arc L. L. Polk, President of tae National Alliance, Ralph Beaumont, arti other promi n*nt members.

Th«pr zes in the PytMan.contest at Milwaukee were awarded on the 11th. The Hastings, Mich., division received first prize of *1.000; Erie, Kan , division, second, t 800; Amsterdam, N. Y„ division, third, *600; New Albany, Ird., division, fourth, I50C; Grand Rapids, Mich., division, fifth, *4OO, Fort Beat born (Cfilcago) division, slt?A *POO, Many ( Indianapolis) division, so«sntk. t’JOo, and Red Cross (St. Louis) eUrbth. *lcJ.

Che.rie Cooyes. Lruise, Dora and Kay Delaware, Louise Bacar and Hattie Thom son, of Seuth Hartn, sta-tod from home "une 25 foe a trp by row-boat ,to South Bend, taking ••-amping out equipage and doing tfcolr ow n rowing. The journey included twesrv nifies along the Michigan '.ahe start sod a pell for fifty-five miles up

the St. Joe River, with several dams and rapids to surmount. The.-young ladies arrived at their destination on Saturday. A fatal riot occurred at a picnic at Starr’s mill pond, in Fayette county, Georgia, Thursday, in which four negros were killed and six wounded. Eight white men were shot also. A negro selling wine on the oc» casion became engaged id a war of words with a white man about the purchase of some, wine, which resulted in the negro getting slightly, cut. From this the quarrel began and was taken up by others, until the White man became involved with a negro who had a gun, but who -did not care to use it. * The Virginia Republican State committee, in accordance with a determination arrived at in a meeting held at Chamberlain’s Wednesday, passed resolutions declaring that they will not participate and advising all self-respecting Republicans to forbear participation in any election in the State where and so long as the same shall be conducted under the foul election law of the Democratic party as now fraudulent administered, hopefully biding the time when unlawful disfranchisement of the electors and fraudulent returns shall become repugnant io popular sentiment. In deference, and only in deference, to what may be wished in some districts, authority is delegated to every congressional committee to call conventions if it desires to do so.

FOREIGN. A portion of the letter-carriers of London aieona strike. The Turkish government has sent a new note to the British government demanding that it fix a date upon which Egypt will be evacuated by the British troops with - out the right of again occupying that country. A terrible conflagration has occurred at Wassiljervo, Russia, by which 329 dwellings were destroyed and seven persons were burned tQ death. The fire was started by a spark from the pipe of a drunken laborer who was himself burned to death. Fort de France, on the Island of Mars Unique, was totally destroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss $3,000,000. The houses de. stroyed number 1700, and seven-eights of the people are homeless. The number of lives lost is very great, twelve bodies having been taken from the ruins up to this writing.

A terrific cyclone prevailed at Muscat, India, Tuesday,and in the adjacent country Great damage was done in the city and surrounding country. Many houses both here and on the plantations were demolished. The loss of life was appalling. Reports thus far received show that over 700 persons were killed.

Prince TJismarck, in an interview published by the Frankfort Journal, says that, he would not have signed the Aoglo-Ger-man agreement in its present form. The ex-Cbancellor holds that Heliogoland, which the Emperor wished to secure to Germany, might have been obtained at less cost. Unless the island is strongly fortified. he says, it might prove a danger to Germany in the event of war.

A Victoria (B. C.) special of the Bth, says: For many months the only British war ship in Esquimault has been H. M. S Amphion. But now all is changed, as i by magic. The Champion suddenly steamed into Esquimault, closely followed by the Daphne, Nymphe and Espiegle, all smart sloops of war. These ships are entering dry dock one or two at a time, receiving scraping, painting, overhauling and taking on supplies, coal, provisions, ammunition and other articles requisite for extended cruises.

It is rumored that within the past week the Spencer, Winchester and Remington arms companies have received large orders for small arms from Honduras and Guatemala, and Salvador has been buying a considerable quantity of powder from the Vulcan Powder Company, of San Francisco. Salvador, only a short time Defore President Menendez’s death, received, through Don J. J Palma, ten thousand stands of English rifles, imported via the Island of Jamaica. These arms were never unlocked during the presidency of Menendez. General Ezeta is now distributing those arms amongst the people of Salvador, and has ordered of a Connecticut cartridge manufacturing company some two million rounds of ammunition.

CYCLONE AT FARGO.

A wind storm visited Fargo, N. D., on the 7th, and came near wrecking the town. Many small houses were demolished and w sole blocks of larger ones unroofed. A Northern Pacific train was blown from the track and fifteen passengers were injured. The residence of Captain McCarthy was demolished and seven ohildren were instantly killed. A special says: The children. who were at home with their mother, sought safety in the coal bin, where they were all crushed to death. Tho mother was also seriously injured, but it is thought she will recover. The Northern Pacific through west-bound passenger train, after being stopped by the force of the wind in the western suburbs of the city, was blown from the track and every one of the twelve cars turned over. Many of the passengers were severely but not dangerously injured, their injuries consisting merely of cuts and bruises. The Northern Pacific repair and machine shops were damaged *30,000 worth; the freight depots of the Great Northern and the Milwaukee roads were demolished; several churches were badly wreckod, and numerous other buildings more or less damaged.

GOLD-MINE OF GREAT WEALTH.

A special from Tin Cup, Col., gives an account es what is claimed to be the most wonderful discovery of gold ever reported. The find is six miles from Tin Cup, on Cross mountain, and is owned by McCormick & Lewis. Between two lines there is a vein ten feet in thickness, the lower six feet of iron manganese, the upper four feet being gold-bearing quartz of free gold. The lowest essay from this rock is *440 per toq, and there are specimens which, put through a common mortar, returns *30,000 in gold to the ton. Two men are now taking but *5,000 each per day. If this streak is only only one yard in depth and extends the full length of the claim (1,500 feet) there is *563,000 gold in it. If the dip goes down one thousand feet it is worth *187,1479,000. The average value is placed at *I,QOO per ton. The excitement over the discovery is intense, and thousands ©! miners are rushing into the camp. ,

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

‘EJ. L. Harper has renewed his Agitation for aparHpn— --- ■ ■ 7*~"'' ■" ' The Salvation Army, at Crawfordsville, has disbanded. Evansville claims 50,600 population, a gain of 21,340 since 1880. Kendallville has 2,970 population, Ligonier 2,300, Columbus 6,40(1. The first load of new wheat on the Crawfordsville market brought $1 per bushel. A handsome residence has been purchased at Columbus for city hospital purposes. At Buffalo, on the Bth, Ike Weir knocked out James Connors in three rounds, for $1,750. A subterranean water course has been discovered on the Forkner farm, near Anderson. The Farmers’ Alliance of Wells County has refused to place a separate ticket in the field. xhik Hoover, of Huntington county, was kicked in the face Ay a favorite horse and frightfully injured. The Vigo county|Farmers'|Alliance will hold a meeting; on the 19th inst. for the purpose of nominating a county ticket. Hiram Marling, who settled in Jackson county seventy-one years ago, and was one of its valued citizens, died Sunday of la grippe. The oil field as developed in Blackford county is six miles long and four miles wide, and the well 3 average twenty-five barrels daily. Fort Wayne has been flooded with a spurious silver dollar, which is almost a perfect counterfeit of the standard American dollar of the 1885 mintage. The Farmers’ Alliance has perfected an organization at Greensburg with about twenty-five members. They propose to make themselves felt as an important factor in the ensuing campaign.

The Vincennes Weekly Sun has entered upon its eighty-seventh volume. It was established July 4, 1804, and thirteen years hence it proposes to celebrate a centennial long to be remembered m Indiana. White Caps took August Colin from the side of his sweetheart, on the night of the 6th, at Corydon, and gave him a severe whipping. He is a young man of good reputation, and it is not known why he was flogged. William Boyle, an Allen county convict in the Prison North, has gone violently insane, due to excessive grief. In his wild est delirium he continues to reiterate his innocence of the crime of which he stands charged. Samuel and Martin Cutsinger and others, of Edinburg, have just sold to Eastman & Co., of New York, 470 head of fine beef cattle, to be shipped -direct to England. The cattle made a general average of 1,525 pounds per head.and were sold at 4% cents per pound. H. L. Taylor, Of Evansville, a traveling salesman, despondent over loss of employment, attempted suicide with a [hatchet, but only succeeded in inflicting a blow upon his head which opened his scalp for a few inches and rendered him temporarily unconscious. John S. Sharon, near Covington, who was s’nking a well on the Webeker farm, exploded a charge of dynamite, and upon re-entering the well was overcome by firedamp. He signalled to be drawn up, but befoi-e reaching the top he loosed his hold, fell back and died. The first celery from the ii6w field near Peru was marketed this week, and it is claimed to be superior to the Kalamazoo product. It was grown upon a strip of land which is eight miles long and over one mile in width, every acre of which is specially adapted to the culture of the plant. William Smith, alias “Texas,” of Covington, while sleeping alone in his house, was assaulted by unknown parties, who crushed his skull with an ax handle. Eleven pieces of the skull was removed by the surgeon, who reports he can not survive. Frank Calhoun, a son-in-law, is under suspicion, having made threats of violence.

Early on the morning of the 7th, John Denbo, keeper of the Crawford County Asylum for the Poor, was taken from his bed, by a crowd of thirty masked men, tied to a post, and was given a most unmerciful whipping. He is charged with criminal intimacy with the female pau pers, and with irregular distribution of supplies furnished by the county. George Seals, a desperado, was driven out of Crawford county by the White Caps and settled in Perry. On the Fourth he was seen abusing his wife, and the next day she was found shot, stamped and beaten to death. Sheriff Cass Gardiner, of Perry county, undertook to arrest Seals and was mortally wounded, dying on Saturday. The murderer is still at large. The jury in the United States Court has given Augustine Clark a judgment against the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad Company for *9,000. On Thanksgiving Day, 1888, the husband of the plain, tiff was killed in a wreck on the railroad named, near English, Crawford county. The judgment is one of the largest ever given in the State in a damage suit for loss of life.

The semi annual convocation of the F. M. B. A., at Vincennes, closed on the 9th. It had been In session two days. They decided by almost a strict party vote nbt to put a tiokot in the field in Knqx County. The Republicans of the county generally feel gratified at this action, because the farmers previously captnred the nominating convention, and made a ticket composed largely of farmers. The Alliance and merchants 6f’ Wabash are about to clash. The Alliance wants merchants to sell at a discount of at least 10 per cent, below prices now asked, and that they furnish members with their private cost mark and an invoice of all goods from the jobber. The merchants will not consent to such an arrangement and it is probable that a co-operative store will be organized. The F. M. B. Association of Wells County met a* Bluffton on the 9th to consult over matters of a political nature. The meeting was largely attended, and, although it was with closed doors, enough wAs. learned to know that a resolution was passed favoring placing a F. M. B. A

county ticket in the field independent Of all political parties. There were but two or three who objected to such a movement Consternation has seized the hundred and more saloon keepers of Terre Haute who refused to take out the $250 liquor license provided by the new ordinance. They were successful in procuring a temporary injunction against the city more than three weeks ago, and the case has been pending before Judge Mack. On the Hth the Court ruled, sustaining the validity of the ordinance, and the defendants were given five days to comply with its provisions or close their places of business. The ordinance was contested on technical grounds, and the saloonl/keepers were hopeful of its overthrow. Auditor of State Carr has prepared a statement concerning the financial condition of the State. It shows the sum of $783,000 in the treasury on July 1, in the general fund. From this there was paid $60,000 in salaries, and the balance must be applied to pay an interest account falling due, $137,000. the running expenses of State institutions for six months, $392,000; bal-* ance of specific appropriations, $167,500; money appropriated for improvements in penal and reformatory institutions, $53,000; amount due the State universities, $23,000, making a' grand total of $832,500 and leaving a deficit of SI9;SOOT’~

An astonishing story of miraculous heal ng was reported Tuesday from the Island of Oleron, near La Rochelle, for cure. A young man is said to have become suddenly endowed with a miraculous power to cure all sorts of physical infirmities. He uses neither incantation, hypnotism, nor drugs, but simply places his feet against those of the patient and makes movements with bis hands over the parties afflicted, thereby effecting a complete cure. His popularity is increasing by thefact that he makes no charge for his services, but simply says after the gestures are completed, “Go in peace; you are cured.” Sometimes one visit is not enough, but three never fail to expel the disease. The halt and blind hasten to him in crowds. He exercises his power at certain times only, and nothing will tempt him to break this l’ule.

Details of the whipping of John H. Deubs, superintendent of the Harrison County Asylum for the Poor, show that it was a : horrible affair. Thirty masked men pro-! sented themselves at the institution, and calling Mr. Deubs out, he was seized and dragged to the woods, and seventy-five lashes were administered on his bare back, the flesh from his shoulders to the hips being flayed. Mr. Deubs became unconscious, and his condition remains critical. While the whipping was being administered, a number of White Caps remained on guard at the institution, revolver in hand, to prevent a rescue. The reason as signed for this brutality is the alleged cruej treatment of the inmates by Mr. Deubs, which is denied by the superintendent and his friends, and also by inmates of the asylum. The superintendent belongs to an old and reputable family, and has always stood well with the community. At the time of the outrage he had no suspicion that harm was intended to him. Prior to his election as superintendent there were several competitors, whose bids were equally low, if not less than the one submitted by himself, and a good deal of ill feeling was engendered over the award. It is believed revenge had more to do with the whipping than any desire to avenge fancied wrongs of the inmates.

The State officers and employes are worrying over the fact that they will not be able to draw any salary until as tor Docem ber, although there are more than *600,000 in the Treasury. The Indianapolis News gives the reason for this situation of affairs in the following words: “This is because of a law passed by the Legislature of 1889. Some months prior to that meeting of the Legislature, there was a period of several months in which the various State institutions had to run in debt for maintenance because of the exhaustion of the general fund of the State. In order to prevent a recurrence of this a law was passed making the appropriations for the support of the benevolent, educational, reformatory and penal institutions, for the erection of new buildings and for the payment of interest on the State debt, special funds which must be set apart for their respective uses and must not be drawn upon for any other purposes.” The News adds: “It may be of interest right here to call attention to the fact that the income of the State is not large enough to ever pay off the deficit. The matter is not simply a transient thing that will adjust itself in a few months. The Legislature will have to do something decisive to lift the State out of the chasm of debt into which it is plunging more deeply every month. Here is the situation at present: The total income of the State is *1,400,000 per annum. The expense of the benevolent, educational, reformatory and penal institutions and the interest on the debt aggregate *1,356,000 per annum. Thus, practically, the entire income of the State is tied up in special fund- which can not be drawn upon to pay salaries of hundreds of employes, and other necessary expenses.”

DEATH OF GENERAL FISK.

Gen. Clinton B. Fisk died at New Yora on the 9th. He was born in 1828. His youth was one of hardship, his father having died, leaving him no support. By hard work he managed to get a good education, and after a successful career as merchantmiller and banker, in Michigan, he removed to SL Louis in 1855. He enlisted in the war as a private and was advanced to Brigadier-General. After the close of the war, and his connection with Ae Freedmen’s Bureau, he founded the famous Fisk University, in Tennessee. He had great interest in education, and was a prominent director of several colleges. In 1884 he joined the Prohibition party and became its candidate for Governor of New Jersey. In 1888 he was nominated for. President by the same party. He was an earnest member of the Methodist Church, and held a high position in its councils. General Fisk exemplified in his life the career of many Americans. Storting in poverty he gained a competency, then lost it, then again regained it. His philanthrophy and public benefactions will make his name a cherished memory in many an American home for years to come.

BOYCOTT THREATENED.

■•an* the Sooth Will Use if the Election BiU is Passed. An alleged interview with a Southern merchant is sent out from Cincinnati relative to the means that will be to offset the federal election bill. The interview closes in the foilbwing words: “First of all, every Northern product, as far as possible, will be boycotted. Following this will come the most extensive and effectual boycott on class labor ever known to the world. Arrangements are already under way to secure abroad thousands of white laborers and every negro employe in the South will be discharged, and no Southern man will, under any pretext, give one of them employment,, the object being to drive them into the North and West,”

A. B. Picket, editor of the Memphis Avalanche, in an interview published on the 9th says: “The negro question is the paramount issue,” said he. “We don’t care for the tariff. But there is only one way the question can be settled and that is by disfranchisement. Disfranchise the negro and the South will be content, but not until then, for we will not submit to the negro rule. The greatest outrage ever perpetrated in this country was the giving of the franchise to the blacks. Trouble and discontent have reigned ever since, and will continue to reign so long as the negro has a hand in politics. All the whites of the South, Republicans as well as Democrats, recognize this and every looal or State election vote the Democratic ticket. It’s a matter of self preservation with u» and we don’t intend to be crushed. This election law may be passed by Congress but it will be no good. Just how we shell evade it we do not know yet, but we will' find a way if it be passed. We have to a certain extent catered to Northern opinions and given the negroes a show, but they abuse it. Over in Crittenden oounty, Arkansas, for instance, the whites, who are outnumbered 18 to 1 by the negroes, gave the blacks free reign far a time allowing them to elect their own men to every public office except that of Sheriff. They got the, Judgeship and the County Clerk’s offioe.' The occupant of the former was ignorant and the latter drunken.

“The finances of the county got into bad shape, and when at last the negroes doj manded the Sheriff’s office the whites rose, up, took the ringleaders, put them in a skiff on the Mississippi river and shoved themi off. Then they announced that a new eleo-i tion would bo held, and since that time! they have run things themselves. If the! negroes could be disfranchised we would) willingly relinquish whatever Cougres-l sional representation their numbers entitle.”

“Is the disfranchisement idea wide* spread!” “Indeed It is; youdo not hear so much of it because the time is not ripe to secure) definite action, but the time will come, and) when a straw is offered for u* to clutoh at) there will be such a clamor in its favor! as will astonish you. We have the AustralJ ian ballot system In Memphis. The negro* is there and Is a menace. What will help' l us is the influx of Northern capital. We have much of it now, but we want more. The negro being the weaker raoe will be crowded south into Mexico, we hope.”

REGISTRATION NECESSARY .

Requirements of tb • New Election Law— j Who Must Register, Not many people seem to know it, butj the time is at hand when registration un.j derthenew election law should begin.. Those who are required to register must dot so at the County Clerk’s office three month 8 ’ before election. The election this year, will occur on November 4, so the last day l for registration is less than a month from now. County Clerk Wilson, in accordance’ with the provisions of the law, has placed! in his office a registration book, and is patiently waiting for voters to come up and enroll their names. Mr. Wilson will get a fee of 35 cents (paid -by the county) for each person that registers. State Librarian Dunn says in his official election law manual (required by law): “While the law does not require repeated registration of citizens who reside continuously in the same county for one gen-| eral election to another, it does require the! registration of every person who moves into any county within six months preceding an election, whether he previously resided within the State or not: and also, of every person who, having oncej been a citizen of Indiana, shall have gonej to another State with the intention off voting, or shall have been absentj from the State for a period of six months.. The system is a departure from ordinaryj registration laws, and is designed to cut; off absolutely false declarations ot resi-j denoe and the importation of voters.' Under the head of “Duties of Voters’*! Mr. Dunn, in bis manual, gives these plain] instructions about registration: “The voter must register at the County; Clerk’s office three months before election^ “1. If, having been a resident of Indi4 ana, he has absented himself from tha State for six months or more. “2. If, having been a resident of Indi-i ana, he has voted in another State. “8. If, Having been a resident of IndL ana, he has gone into another State oq sovereignty with the intention of voting; there. * “4. If he has not been a boneflda resi-j dent of the county in which he resides for; at least six months before election. “The first three specifications are Indefl ' nite as to time, bo* presumably mean that) the voter mast register if he has so abseated himself or voted sinoe he last exercised the right of suffrage in Indiana. , “The certificate of registration must be taken to the polls, as the voter eannot vote; unless he produces it on demand of the challenger. This registration need not bq made if, prior to leaving ths State, the voter, filed with the County Clerk a notice of his intention to hold residence in Indiana.” It is reported that tie warring factions at Harlan Court fcous-e, Ivy., on Thursday night burned the <i House with alj records. • I ' *