Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1890 — Page 3

THE FARMER’S ALLIANCE

'AUTHORIZED STATEMENT OF THE POLITICAL. SITUATION. t Tb«lr Demands Munt Be Granted or An* '! oilier Party Will Be Org nlzed—A Brief ; Talk With McKinley—Other Politie.il Matters. t• • / |SL Louis Globe-Democrat The tirst{declaration from the Nation!al Farmers’ Alliance since the election !is given below. It is furnished from ithe National headquarters of the Alliiance in this city. As a commentary {upon the results, and as an official forecast of what the Alliance will try =toxto nrCongress. it is very interesting, ilt will be seen that the National 'officers of the Alliance claim sixtythree members in the next Houge. The declaration is as follows: The elections just held show conclusively that the farmers’ and laborers’ organizations are a power in politics. Justin proportion to membership and unity of action, so has been the proportion of the changes wrought 5 Not a single exception to this broad statement will be found when an analysis of the elections just had is made. In the Southern States the issue was

made in the primaries long beforaAhe.. adjournment of Congress, and before the bayseeders decided to make a strong fight. The Alliance has no Stale organization in the following States, to-wit: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington. ' In New Hampshire the Farmers’ League, Grangers and Knights of Labor are fairly strong, and in New York the League and Knights have great strength. In the States not enumerated the Alliance has great strength, either alone or by combination with the Patrons of Industry, as was the ease in Michigan or the Mutual Benefit Assoc.. t' nin Indiana and Illinois. It is not proj osed to give the inner facts; the membership knows this full well. But th 9 figures as given in the State returns show conclusively that the groundswell has been in proportion to the organized efforts of the farmers’and laborers’ movement. It is freely admitted by all that it was supposed by the old loaders that party fealty would draw the membership back, and they made their fight on the old lines. The enormous combination could result in a tremendous avalaache against any party the combination op. posed.

The question has been raised, if the Alliance is non-partisan, as the Alliance claims, how is it the members have voted solidly against the Repubcan party? They have not done so. Take Democratic Georgia for an example. Another antipodal State is Kansas. In Kansas the fight for reform was certainly against sectionalism. The Republican party being in power; holding bbthathe executive and legislative branches of the National gov eminent, wa» responsible for legislation had, and aso for failures to pass such measures as the people desired. This made it a shining mark. The people had not taken a hand in re.'onig for many years, aiid they came to thir Congress asking them by petitions, then through their organizations. They male their demands on Congress - -noton party. First they asked for free coinage of silver The party in power said: "We know better what, you need than yefu yourselves know; we will pass a bill that will put the power in our Secretary’s hands; we will aid our spec ilatork, not the people.” So they passed a silver bill the people opposed. Tho people said: The party in power protects the iron and steel industries, why not protect our silver industries?” But their demands were denied. The people thought the petitions of over 4,000,000 voters should be be heeded. The Con - gressmen said: "The petitions do not amount to anything. We coqld get the fanners and laborers to sign just as many opposing the very measures they now demand.” We thought our request ought to have been heeded. We then said: "Wo will make you heed your masters.” And they did by giving us sixth-three membsrs of Congress when wo did not want twentyfour this lime. Party politicians say it was the tariff Both old parties want that to be the light again in 1892- Once more wo tell them that is a Bide issue. You could not get the farmers to listen to your tariff speeches in 1890; you will not in 1892. There were no petitions sent in for froe traders. We never said a word against the tariff. We did say we desired a fair adjustment of the tariff. We wanted a revenue for the government economically administered. If 50 per centum (average) Is necessary for protection to the laborer and manufacturer we want this average of per centum so adjusted that it will not oppress the poor and be o(advantage to the rich. We did not think wo were fairly treated when 80 per centtim was put on many of the necessaries, while 20 per centum was put on luxuries to (bring about the average. We said if binding-twine ought to be free (and it oughtl cotton ties and bagging ought to be treated in the same way. The brotherhood North said wo will stand by tho bretbern in the South, and they did. We said. “War issues are dead: we want a reunited country. Ingalls and others wanted to fight the war over ugn n; the brothorhood stood together. Veterans of both armies were there and are there. We stood united for more currency. Foreign investments have so increased that to pay the interest it takes not only our annual products of gold, but we are drawing on our reserved already oolned —-even with the balance of trade In our favor. Yet the annual interest and dlvidens eall our geld all of oyr country. The legal tenders are fixed In amount by law; the national bank currency is constantly being reduced

by the retiring progress; fire and flood is destroying our currency yearly. The reserves grow greater just in proportion to deposits, while our population is increasing, and our demand for currency is also increasing, but our currency is steadily decreasing. We ask that our currency shall be increased. We want as many dollars per capita as the rate of tariff is per hundred. This would not equal the per capita of France, and we have need for more than France. We said, , and we challenge criticism, that if the farmers were as well off prior to the war—so that they were just one crop ahead—the entire circulating medium would not pay fdr their crops. If they put the money into their pockets and went home with it not a merchant, banker or broker would have a dol.ar. We presented bills with a view of increasing the currency; we were ridiculed and called 'agrarian humbugs,’ So the people in their wrath hurledthese men from power. If the Fifty-second Congress gives usjno relief—if they do not makean effort so to do —they,too, will be hurled from power. If a Democratic House is disposed to, aid us and a Republican Senate opposes! we will wipe the earth up with the' American House of Lords. We shall wait patiently and see what tho Democrats will do; if they do not aid us. then a third party is just as inevitable as death.”

WHAT PRESIDENT POLK SAYS. • Mr. L. L. Polk, president of the National Farmers’ Alliance, is very jubilant over the result of the elections. In the course of an interview lately he said: ••The Democrats and Republicans are claiming everything just now. but when they come to sift the chaff from the wheat they will find that the Farmers’ Alliance had something to do with electing a fair proportion of the good men who will have seats in the next Congress. Up to the present time it is a certainty that Congress will contain thirty-eight straight-out Alliance men, and there are twelve or fifteen more who are pledged to us. These men are from the South and and Northwest—the two sections in which most of our work was done. The Alliance in Nebraska, Minnesota and lowa is not our organization, has cot amalgamated with us, but it made the same fight, and will join us this winter. Our Alliance co-operated with them; we will co-operate with any farmers’ association, and in a little while nave a grip on the situation in almost every corner of the land. ‘•We are here to stay. This great reform movement will not cease until it has impressed itself indelibly in the Nation’s history. Financial reform is the necessity of the hour, and it must come. The press and the voice of the stump-speaker were our. only assistants. The Alliance had no campaign fund, no boodle;’if wehadhsdmoney we would not have used it. The virtue and patriotism of tho people were the things we appealed to. Our methods were fair and square, and the whole world could Bee what we wore doing. The principles on which the Alliance is founded are solid and correct; we must succeed. The fight was no small affair. The extremists of both parties attacked us bitterly and gave no inch of ground. In the tiouth it was tho Democrats who opposed us. In the North our most vigorous antagonists were Republicans.” ill,:' J

TALK WITH MR. M’KINLEr. Congressman McKinley, speaking to a reporter about the recent election, said: "I am well satisfied with the result of my own district. I gained 2,600 votes during a campaign which lastdd but three weeks. That was even more than I had any right to expect. It is certainly very gratifying to me.” "What do you think of the result in the State?” was asked. "The Republican victory on the State ticket was splendid. The unfairness of the gerrymander was manifested most clearly by the recent election. The Republicans carried the State by a popular majority of over 12,000 while the Democrats secured two-thirds of the Representatives in Congress, and the Republicans onethird. This shows the effect of the gerrymander very clearly.” "Has the cause of protection suffered any by the recent Democratic victories throughout the country?” "Protection is stronger to-day than it ever was and it will continue to grow in favor. The tariff bill, which was made the issue during the campaign, wks but three and one-half weeks old when the election occurred, and many of its provisions have not yet gone into effect. The bill was misunderstood and shamefully misrepresented. The latter was done by the importers, many of whom are not citizens of the United States and are free-traders.” "What will be tho future of the billP” "I am sure that It will win in tho end. All great measures have met with temporary defeat. The emancipation of tho slaves and the passage of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to tho Constitution may be pointed to as examples. The same issue wilt come to the front in 1892. and it will then be better understood. Our defeat this year is not greater than it was in 1882, two years after Garfield was elected. The Republicans haVe not had a majority in the House of Representatives buttwice since 1875, In this Congress we have twenty-six members from the South, while in the next there will be but two or ihhee. We have little to fear in the future if we have a free oallot and fair count” CLEVELAND NOMIFATED BV THURMAN. Allen W. Thurman, son of Judge Thurman, in whose honor a banquet was to be given November IS, addressed a jollification meeting at Hamilton, Butler county, the home of Governor Campbell, recently, and gave the credit of the recent victory to ex-Presldent ■ 0 ' v- ijifc : .. • ’ -

Cleveland, and at the same time paid the following handsome tribute: “Yet this was the issue, plain and simple, brought about by the McKinley bill, and to the mofe Grover Cleveland, who three years ago boldly and fearlessly attacked this whole system, more than anv other do we owe this victor*. Never fcF one moment, amidst all the abuse that was heaped upon him. CM he falter or his courage fail. Believj n.! in the truth and justice of his post tlon, believing that the government had no right to take money out of the pockets of the people for the benefit of a particular class, he continued year after year, when others hesitated, to battle for the right, and now, when all are eager to join in the fray, certainly this fact that he dared to leaA when scarcely any dared to follow, shows the metal he is made of, and 1 believe that the whole people will see to it that he, and only he, shall be again chosen as their leader in 1892. If ever man spoke the truth, surely he did when he said, a few days ago: ‘Nr one has a greater right to rejoice thar, I have.’ ’’

how m’kinley was BEATEN. There is an interesting story told of the way the politicians worked the Ornish settlement in Holmes county., As is well known, these people are very clannish. The Democratic managers engaged a number of men to rig up old wagons, stock them with tinware, then go through the settlement and try to sell tinware at fabulous prices. They would go to the Ornish farmer and offer to sell him a 5-Gent' tin cup for sl, while an ordinary dishpan was out of the reach of even n millionaire. When the paralyzed farmer would kick he was told that was the best that could be done under the circumstances: that the McKinley bill had so increased the price of everything that they could not sell at lower figures. Once the Omi3h got this idea in their heads, tho most eloquentof Republican speakers could not convince them of the contrary. They would shake their heads sullenly, confer together and answe.-: “We saw the men ourselves; they had the tinware with them.” In despair the Republicans fought to the end, and there is little doubt the tin peddlers contributed to the defeat of the champion of protection.

A Somnambulist in a Hotel.

Detroit Free Frees. “Have you ever had any patrons who were somnambulists?” was asked a hot,el.keeper, . “Havel? I had one last week.” “Tell me about it.” •One night as I was about to leave the office,,’ said the honiface, “1 noticed a man coming down stairs with his grip in hand. He was staring straight ahead, lookingat nothing, just like a 3-weeks-old bany, I followed him until he reached the outside door and caught him by the collar. •“Wha-wha-what’s the matter?” he gasped,acting just like a man who had been suddenly awakened. ■ *• -Oh, nothing,’ said I. ‘Where are you going?’ •“Why ami not in bed?’ ho exclaimed. “ ‘Not at tne present time. 'I replied;, “ ‘I must have been al seep.’ he mur. mured, looking like a dog that had been caught in the act of chasing sheep. “ ‘Maybe you were,’ 6aid I, ‘but you can bet the amount of your unpaid board bill that I’m wide awuke.’ So I brought him back to thecashior’s d&sk and made him settle up. Then the porter and I thoroughly awoke him by kicking him out,” From the above anecdote it is inferred that somnambulism dosen’tpay —at least iu a hotel whose proprietor is wide awake. -

“Money Goes.”

Chicago Times. Tie*old saying that "money goes,” was illustrated recently. A customer tendered a S2O bill. The tradesman had it changed by a neighbor, who, being in a hurry, gave a pocket piece of $lO in gold ot the issue of 1861, which he prized highly and did not want to part with. He went t.o the tradesman as soon as he had given the valued coin, and the latter went out and hunted up tho customer to whom he had given it. He had bought some cigars at a neighboring store and had given the gold piece in payment. Upon gein j to tho cigar store it was found that thu proprietor had transferred the coin to a saloon keeper near by, and at that place it was found that the saloon keeper had used it iu liquidating his brewery bill. Tho next day a neighbor went to tfod brewery and found that the cashier of that institution had just parted with the coveted piece of money to a dissatisfied employe. The individual was at last located and the coin recovered.

Hard on the manager.

Argonaut. Cheery John Maclean made his first appearance in London at the Surrey as Peter Purcell in “The Idiot of the Mountain.” Shepherd and Creswick were the managers of the theater, then, and Maclean was standing one day at tho bar of Rooney’s, whon a kind friend pointed out the newly engaged actor to Shepherd, who, having been ill, had not yet seen him. “You’re playing in ray theator, Mr. Maclean?” Shepherd bawled. "Pm playing in The Idiot of the Mountain, sir,” Maclean replied, half timidly. ••Glad to hear It, sir; glad to hear it!” Shepherd exclaimed. "You're not tho Idiot, surely?” f “No. &lr.” Maclean answered, with a serious face; “the manager wkn ,-u. gaged me is the idiot!”

FARM AND GARDEN.

Tb> Revue Horticole says that the following is a cheap and effective method of preventing the decay of wood ftaeu buried in tne ground: Mix finely powdered coal with linseed oil and apply jo the parts to be buried. This is inexpensive and easily applied, and we would suggest that our readers experiment with it in setting their new fence posts this season. When a grindstone is supplied with a trough underneath for water the trough should be adjustable, so that It can be lowered when the stone is not in use. If a portion of the surface is left in the water it is kept soft, w hile the rest, by exposure to the sun and air, is constantly growing harder. This soon throws the stone out of balance, and, a 9 the wet part wears away much faster than the dry, the stone soon becomes unfit for use. Excepting cotton, the products of the United States this year will not be more than needed for our own consumption. In some regions there will be a scarcity, but fortunately rapid transit is at hand.and none wiLl suffer. We also learn that in Great Britain and continental Europe crops are lamentably short. Especially is it feared that unfortunate Ireland will be pinched again. In our own country it looks as though the farmer would have mads up to him in prices received much that he falls short of his usual amount in crop products. At the Maryland experiment station careful tests have been made in strawberry growing to determine the relative merits of the hill versus the matted row system. In nearly all varieties the matted rows gave the larger yields and generally the larger fruit. Probably for success with the hiTl system richer soil and higher cultivation than were given are necessary. It is reasonable to suppose that cutting off all runners and confining the plant solely to the production of fruit would lead to the beat results, provided all the cultural neods of the plant were

satisfied. With ordinary soil and culture the matted row would belter meet the requirements. So many side branches of farm work fail to pay because they are either not done intelligently or are carried out in a negligent way. The farmer leaves his few stands of bees to take care of themselves, merely "keeping - his eye on them;” but a dozen hives could bring him as much revenue as his tenacre wheat field. Especially frequently does he underrate the return that a little care of his chiokens would bring. Let him at least train his children into a proper interest in them. Every branch of the poultry business can be made to pay, whether he makes a specialty of producing eggs for market or young fowls for table when the spring market is high, or hundreds of good, fat birds for next winter's market. The use of sulphur in drying or evaporating fruit has been carried to lan unwarranted point, and tho reacj turn bas set in. it is dangerous to ! health, better results can be obtained | without it, and its use will soon be a thing of the past. The most successful growers of prunes in Oregon use no lye to eat the skip, so that drying will be facilitated; they use no sulphur; they have no sweating process. Their method is simply to put the prunes into the dryer for from twelve lo eighteen hours, witli a rapidly circulating current of air at 150 degrees. The fruit is then put in barrels and covered, so as to exclude dust and flies. After about six weeks it is put into five and ten pouDd boxes, neatly packed, wrapped and labeled. The advantages of this method are purity and heallhfulness, a natural fruity odor, taste, and color, and better keeping qualities than can be had by any other process. We Bhould presume also that it had an additional recommendation on the score of oheapness. The little bills of the blacksmith, carpenter, machinist, etc., for incidental work and repairs about tne farm and to the tools and machinery, amount to a considerable item in the course of the year, and constitute a burdensome tax. Much of this expense can be done away with by having a well-appointed workshop on the farm and learning bow to hanale tools, n tho giaaary or loft a workshop may be readily arranged. Plenty of light is cssent>t*l and should come from directly over the bench. There must be a chimney and stove, so that you can work during the leisure days in winter. Build a secure chimney, and set the stove in a wide, shallow box of sand, so as to avoid danger from lire. The first thing in furnishing the shop is to build a substantial bench. It should be p aned on the top. at least To one end socure a wood vise, with broad jaws. .Get a good grindstone, with treadle and crank, so that tools may be kept sharp. A small scroll saw and lathe will often be needed, and can be bought for a few dollars. With your own tools make a shaving horse and harness bench. In your outfit of tools should be included an ordinary hand saw, a rip saw. a tenon saw, and a compass suw; a good hatchet, a claw and riveting hammer, from six to twelve chisels (assorted sizes), a wooden mallet a good brace, with a sat of assorted bits. In planes there should be smooth, a jack, and a fcrs plane. Then a few gouges, a plumb bob, a small and a large square, a compass, a bevel, a level, a two-foot r lie, a monkey-wrench, a saw set, files, a drawingknife, a spoke shave, etc- together with a lot of harness needles, thread, knife and awls. From SSU to SIOO may bo spent in furnishing such a shop, and It will prove tho best investment of the farm. For blacksmithing a small portablo forge nod tho few tools needed may bo added at small expense. Often tho saving in time by not having to run to town for repairs will boos great as the saving io money.

SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

The Illinois Steel Company, of Joliet, for the second time divided $4,000 among its employees ivs their share of the quarterly profits. t , All the coal mines in the Morris (111 ) district have suspended Operations because of a disagreement between the nompany and the laborers. The operators recently raised the price of coal twenty-fiyc cents per ton, and the workmen demanded an increase of wages at the rate of ten cents per ton, but were refused. Now ihere ia a strike in progress. Thomas Rhoads dismissed 167 employes from hie morocco factory last Saturday, in accordance witn the resolution of the National Morocco Manufacturers’ Association to dispense with the services of all Knights of Labor, These men refused to leave the order and were therefore discharged. It is said that the manufacturer will shut down for a short time and then start a non-union shop. The threat of a gigantic strike among the Western Union telegraph operators is said to have been withdrawn. The members of the Brotherhood at Omaha. Neb., agreed to withdraw from lhe_order, on condition of immediate reinstatement. The operators at St. Paul. Minn 1 and other eities, were sent back to work by an emphatic message from the Brotherhood headquarters, and the Chicago operators were forbidden to participate in the strike.

SOMEWHAT CURIOUS.

Twenty million acres of tho land of the United States are held by foreigners. There are 10,852 school districts, 62,372 teachers and 2,800,000 school children in Japan. The largest boar skin in tho world is in Kansas City. It was taken from an animal weighing 2,800 pounds. Liverpool, England has 250 miles of the best paved streets in the world, and it costa-less than $40,000 a year to keep them in repair. Two of the albums sent to the international exihibilion of postage-stamps in the world at Vienna were insured for £2,590 and £3,000 respectively— H. G. Wheeler, of Odebolt, has under cultivation the largest farm in lowa. It comprises 6,200 acres, every foot of which is under cultivation. The slave population of this country was 2,009.043 in 1830, 2,487,355, in 1840, 3,204,313, in 1850,and 3.953.760. Missouri had 25,091 slaves in 1840, 87,422 in 1850 and 114,931 in 1860. - Dark-haired persons have a bettor chance in the great struggle for existence than those of the opposite complexion, except in contagious diseases, where blondes are comparatively except. Cascade county, Montana, ha 3 been put to an expense of SBOO by lawsuits concerning four tame ducks, between neighbors. One of the parties has been sent to the.jpeniientiary for per. jury. The Chautuqua Literary and Seien tific Circle, which was organized in 1878 with a membership of 700, has now 17,000 circles located in all parts of the world, including a branch in the Cape of Good Hope. A platina coin bearing the image of Antiochus of Syria, who died 164 B C., has been found at Tepe-Kermene, an ancient town in Crimea. It is tho only one of the kind known to exist and therefore of great value. The United States government holds in its vaults a greater amount of gold and silver than any other government in the world. It is the direct custodian of $325,000,000 in gold, coin and bars, and $318,000,000 in silver. Soundings in the Black Sea show that beyond a depth of six hundred feet the water is so impregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen gas emanating From decaying animal and vegetable matter that living organisms are not found there.

Nearly 7,000 pounds of attar of roses were exported from Tui key last year, worth $050,000. Essence of geranium has been employed for adulteration, and tho Turkish government has, now forbidden the importation of this essence, t Some amazingly big pumpkins have been raised in Maine this fall, and the contest for the honors is now on. Mr. Guy Mullen, of Newport, is pretty well to the front in this, having raised seven on one vine whose combinod weight was 102 pounds. The receivable traditions of China go back to 3 r ooo years before Christ; and one of the saored books, the Shuking (treating of history and of the government and laws of the ancient monarchs) begins with the Emperor Yao, 2,357 years B. C. A person born in hot weather stands the heat a great deal better than-one born in the cold months oi winter; of course the rule works vice versa. Those horn in the spring ure usually of a more robust constitution than if born at any other time of the year.

Truthful Woman.

Philadelphia Time*. "I am a believer in the truth of women,” remarked the man who was the first to empty his gloss and last to treat. f —r— —r ... ••So are we all, wo hope," echoed the others. "But not to the extent I am,” he insisted. "I have now been married ton years, and every night when I go home she is sure to say: •Ah! drunk as usual.*” "Well, what has that got to do with it?" ' ' " "Only this: I have never caught her in a lie yet,”

INDIANSI INDIANSI

Threatened Out break—Great Excitemant—Preparations of tbo War Department Telegrams poured into army heatfquap - ters at Omaha and into the newspaper offices to-day about the Indians’ erase. At the army offices these were made light of, at least in conversation with the civilian reporter, and it was stoutly asserted that the Indians were only oat on a hunt. Further, it was stated that two reliable Brule Indians now in the city had stated to the army officers that there was no Messiah craze among the Indians just north of the Nebraska line. Private advices from Valentine give a different origin than the Messiah craze to the Indian uneasiness. Since August the Indians of Rosebud have been restless, claiming that the agent was not giving them a square deal on supplies. A few days ago the families living ten miles northwest of Valentine moved away simultaneously Their neighbors sought to convince them that there was no danger, but they had heard the complaints about the agent, and were bound to go, and they went. Orders were issued, at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning, to companies A, B, C and D, of the Second United States Infantry, at Fort Omaha, to prepare for marching at once, while the other four companies were notified to be ready to move on short notice. The first-named companies left for Pice Ridge agency at 4 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, with a full complement of mules and wagons, and will be provided with rations for fifteen days. The marching column will be in command of Major Butler. Troops at Fort McKinney will also be ordered out, and leave in the morning for Douglas, Wyo., with Col, Guy V. Henry in command. The march is about one hundred and twenty-five miles.

Gen. Miles, in speaking of the move' ments of large bodies of troops and their concentration at points adjacent to the Pino Ridge agency, said that the troops were sent to the Sioux reservation to pro. venta possible outbreak. He thinks the messiah racket isn’t exciting the savages half as much as the crop failure and short rations, the latter always driving an Indian into frenzy. Gen. Miles concedes that the situation is more serious than Is apparentt, though he thinks the reports are exaggerated. : Every house in Mandan, N. D., is full tq overflowing with refugees from country districts. The most intense excitement prevails in the country. Settlers are propared to believe anything about the Indians because of their queer actions lately. Several families came in Tuesday on foot a distance of twenty miles and over, too poor to own wagons. In town somewhat less tension exists, owing to the receipt of 800 guns from the State government and the fact that a company of soldiers Will arrive from Fort To. ten. There are 200 Indians in the town armed, but citizens are armed, too, and patrols will bo out and people will sleep with their clothes on. The date will bo fixed by a committee of citizeps and Indian agent 3 will be notified that after that date any Indian found in bhecouuty without a pass from the agent wFll bo killed on sight. The population is thoroughly aroused, and, although conservative men are doing their best toquiet the angry populace, there is every reason to believe that unless the government takes immediate steps to increase the force of soldiers at Mandan and at Fort Lincoln every fndian coming into the country will be killed. * .

Another dispatch says nearly a hundred settlers came in on a train from West End county, going to Bismarck for safety. At QjenCllen, forty miles west, citizens turned out en masse, and threw up cirou l lar breastworks by moonlight large enough to get into for protection. A supply of rifles were seut to each settlement in the county. Telegrams were coming in constantly for supplies of ammunition. A telegram received by a correspondent Tuesday night from New Salem states" that 150 Indians are camped south of that point, and the people are clamoring for guns and powder. A number of deter mined men, bent on driving out of tho town the Indians camped there, deferred action till morning, on the Indians promising to be peaceable. But tbo first thing ia the morning s they would be moved off promptly. While the correspondent was writing this band of red-skins was having a grass dance, making night hideous. Their shrieks could be heard for miles. While the exeitment in town was subsiding because of the presenco of plenty of guns, agitation in the country was worse than ever. This was causod largely by the insolent and menacing attitude of roving UcLaughlin wires there is no cause for alarm, but everybody believes this a buncombe.

Patents were Tuesday issued to Indiana inventors as follows: S. B. Caster, Noblesville, apparatus for utilizing nstnral gas for raising water; N. M. Cbero, Southport, plant setting machine; J. F. Benn, Indian, apolis, apparatus for blowing sand from railway track rails; E. Diets,lndianapolis box-trimming machine; 8. Gregg, Crawfordsville, wire for wire poet and wire fences; W. C. H- Evansville, curtain fixture; L. P. • Hartford City, paper trimming km.. ... H. Johnson and T. L. Kruse, Indianapolis, dry closet; J. J. Moore end J. T. McKinney, Thorn torn, beating stove; O. W. Rife, Richmond, gang plow; B. P. and 8. C. Wolfe, Frarnont, fenoe. • Complete unofficial returns from the election in Kansas show the election of the Republican ticket, with the exception ot tho Attorney-General, by majorities ranging from 8,000 to 8,000. Attorney- General Kellogg, although be ran 11,000 ahead of his ticket, was defeated for re-election by I ves, the Farmers’ Alliance candidate, by a plurality oi 42,000. Frances E. Warren, of Cheyenne, Gov. ecu or of Wyoming, was elected to the United States Senate on the sixth ballot in the Legislature. His colleague will he ex Dt logate James M. Carey, also of Cheyeuue. _