Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1878 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. p, . RENSSELAER, • INDIANA.

General News Summary.

wjuumnrrvw. y A circular wm inilM from the United States Traaaury Department, on the 13th. postponing the execution of all previous orders directing the exchange of standard dollars for United states notes. The reason aasigned was that the Secretary had been advised that such exchange was a substantial resumption of specie payments, and that he had no authority to anticipate the period fixed by law for such resumption. The further announcemeut was made that silver dollars would be paid out for coin obligations and for common currency demands upon the Treasury. A circular was issued, on the 10th, by the United States Treasurer, stating that for the present 130 National Banks, “designated depositories of the United States,” will bs supplied by the Treasury, upon their application, with standard silver dollars from the mint, free of expense, in accordance with Bet. BJB7, R. 8. It is expected that the coin furnished will be put 'n circulation by being furnished to public disbursing officers, to manufacturing and other establishments, to other banka and bankers for distribution in like manner by them, and generally where it is to be used as current money. Tnt Secretary of the Treasury, on the 16th, issued the seveuty-first call for the redemption of •5,000,000 of 5-20 bonds of 1865—82,000,000 coupon and $3,000,000 registered. The principal and Interest will be paid on and after Dec. 16, interest to cease on that day. Aoooanixo to the official tablet of the census of the District of Columbia, published on the 16th, the population of Washington is 13L947; Georgetown, 11,571, and of the county, 16,583. Total in the District, 160,051, of which 106,487 are whites and 58,634 colored. Cohen, the labor agitator, with a following of about 800 men, mostly negroes on a strike, undertook to get up a disturbance in Washington, on the 20th, by visiting the brickyards tn the southeastern portion of the city, and advising the workmen there to join in the Strike. Cohen addressed the workmen, but met with little encouragement, A meeting of the strikers was held in the City Hal), in the evening, at which speeches of a mild character were indulged in. Owing to the threatening appearance of affairs in Washington, as a precautionary measure, regular troops had been brought from Baltimore, to protect the city from violence, but their services did not seem to be required.

■rilK EAST. The rote for Governor in Maine, at the late election, is given approximately as follows: For Connor (Rep.), 58.000; Smith (Greenback), 37,000; Garcelon (Dem.), 29,000. An explosion occurred, a few days ago. in a nitro-glycerine and dynamite magazine, near Bradford, Pa., and N. B. Pulveti (owner of the magazine), J. B. Burkholder, Andrew P. Higgins and Charley Page were blown into fragments. Tub Connecticut Democratic State Conventioa was held at New Haven, on the 17th, and the present State officers were nominated for re-election, headed by Erhart D. Hubbard for Governor. Lieut.-Gov. Loomis declined a renomination, and Charles Durand, of Derby v was selected in his stead. The platform adopted condemns all repudiation,and demands an honest and just payment of the public debt; that gold and silver are recognized by the Con»UtUtiQ_n_MU)e standard money of the Union, and constitute the most stable basis for the commercial necessities of the world; that the Resumption act was not called for, and was unwise at the time of its passage, but the Representatives of the State in Congress are relied upon to exercise wise judgment in their action upon the question of resumption at this time. A State Democratic Convention was held ia Worcester, Mass., on the 17th. The Convention was largely composed of delegates acting in the interest of Gen. Butler for Governor, and these bad taken the precaution to secure all the halls in the city, so that when the trouble came, the dissatisfied ones could find no place for meeting. The State Central Committee, who were opposed to Butler, seeing that his nomination was inevitable, thereupon declared an adjournment to Faneuil Hall, Boston, and fixed the time for holding . the Convention on the 25th of September. Mr. Butler’s friends thereupon organized by the selection of Hon. Richard I. Spofford as Permanent Chairman, and placed the following ticket in nomination: Governor, Benjamin F. Butler; LieutenantGovernor, John F. Arnold; Secretary of State, Charles M. Strauss; Attorney-General, 'Caleb Cushing; Auditor, J. Boyle O’Reilly; Treasurer, D. N. Skillings. The platform adopted reiterates the adhesion of the Massachusetts Democracy to old-time Democratic principles; condemns the prevailing extravagance in the administration of State and National affairs; favors the reservation of the public domain for actual settlers; condemns the fraud by which President Hayes was declared elected; declares the Republican party immeasurably corrupt; indorses the platform adopted in 1875; deprecates the placing of restrictions in the way of exercising the right of suffrage, etc., etc. | There being no choice for Governor in Maine (the Constitution requiring a clear majority over all opposing candidates), the duty of selecting a Governor will devolve upon the Legislature, which meets in January next. The process is for the House of Represents tires to select two persons by ballot from those who were voted for at the popular election, and certify their names to the Senate, by which body on* of the two is declared Governor

A school-district election was held in New Haven, Conn., on the 16th, the Issue being the re-establishment of devotional exercises in the public schools. The ticket favoring such re-establishment was successful by 2,900 majority. The Catholics woted with the PrcSrstsnU. The Republicans of the First New Jersey District have nominated Hon. George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy under President Grant, for Congress. The Massachusetts Republicans met at j Worcester in Bute Convention, on the 18th, and placed tn nomination the following ticket: Governor, Hon. Thomas Talbot; LieutenantGovernor. John D. Long; Secretary of State, Henry L. Pierce; Treasurer, Charles End! cott; Auditor, the present incumbent; Attor-ney-Geheral, G*3tge Mirsion. The resold tions congratulate the BUte and Nation on the near approach of specie payments; insist ihatttal paper, silver and gold issues of the country shall be equal in value; advise the continued funding of the public debt at a lower rate of interest; demand ‘economy in the administration of State and National affairs; commend the President for his firmness and integrity, etc., etc, D. N. Shilling, the nominee of the Butler Massachusetts Democratic SUte Convention for Treasurer, has declined the candidacy, »sHVHag as * reason his disapproval of the methods of the party. Gou> closed in New. York, on Sept. 20th, at 100J<. The following were the closing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring WhtotfNew),.*LO4ol.O4X: No. 2 Milwaukee (New), 81-0501. Oats, Western, 25@ Me. Oom, Western. Mixed, 48@51c. Pork, Mesa, 89j60. Lard, 86.97 - Flour, Good to White Wheat ■Extra,'-’ •4.9005.75. Cattle, W&QIO.2S for Good to Exira Sheep, WA005.87X. Hogs, 88.7004.75 At East Liberty, Pa, on Sept. 90th, Cattle towglitt >ast, 86.0005.90; Medium, M.OO / — L _ ■ . 7?'-.-

•4 25; Common, 83.60®8.80. Hogs sold— Yorkers, H OOfM-M; Phlladelphias, »4.60® 4.78. Sheep brought 83.004J4.45—according to quality. At Baltimore, Md. on Sept. 30th, Cattle brought: Beat, Medium, 88.37)4(«M.62)4- Hogs sold at •S.fiOigß 37)4 for Good. Sheep were quoted at for good , ’ WDHT AZB SOITH. OX the Ittthfthe- Republican Btate Conveution was to meet at New Orleans, La. A quorum failed to put in an appearance, and the Convention adjourned subject to the call of the Chairman of the State Central Committee. Lomee Griffin, the oldest man in the United States, died at hi* home in Lodi, Ohio, on the evening of the Iflth. He Was 106 years old. / ■ ' . A few days ago In Berkley, Tex., George Lynch was shot and left for dead. While he was lying unconscious, the assqMln murdered Lynch's entire family of seven children, the eldest being a girl seventeen years old. At last accounts Lynch was likely to recover. The Democratic members of the Oregon Legislature have elected J. H. Slater to succeed Mr. Mitchell In the United States Senate. In a recent intervie'w, Mr. Slater said he U not in sympathy with inflation. He advocates the substitution of legal-tenders for National Bank notes, opposes fiat money and demands that currency shall be on a coin basis. Simoni, the Italian, who, some months ago, murdered Nicholas McCue, in the streets of Chicago, was arraigned in the Criminal Court of that city, on the 16th, and, to Mie surprise of all except his counsel, entered the plea of guilty. The punishment tor his admitted crime must be either hanging or imprisonment for life, at the discretion of the presiding Judge.

Ox the 17th, the reunion of the Twentythird Ohio Volunteer Infantry (better known as “ President Hayes’ Regiment”) occurred at Willoughby, and over 10,000 jieople were present. President Hayes and family, Gen. Hastings and other distinguished personages were in attendance. A short and pleasant speech by President Hayes (who was presiding officer of the day), in response to the welcoming address by Mayor Ellin, was loudlyapplauded. At Baltimore, on the 17th, the Grand Lodge of Odd-Fellows, in session in that city, elected John B. Harmon, of California, Grand Sire, and Mr. Glenn, of Georgia, Deputy Grand Sire. The other officers were re-elected. An amendment was adopted changing the title of the supreme body from “Grand Lodge of the United States” to that of **Graud Lodge of Independent Order of Odd-Fellows.” Im response to letters signed by many prominent citizens of Wisconsin, ex-Senator Carpenter has consented to be a candidate for United States Senator, before the Legislature, next winter. The Republicans of Nevada held their State Convention ou the 19th. A platform was adopted declaring the validity of Hayes’ title to the Presidency, and denouncing the Potter investigation as revolutionary; demanding that the coinage of silver be placed on an equal footing with gold; favoring Legislative and Congressional control of railroads. R. M. Daggett was nominated for Congress, J. H. Kinkaid for Governor. Ox the 19th, the State National Convention met at New Orieans, La., and nominated Gen. Beauregard for State Treasurer. That gentleman declined, and Dr. J. S. Gardner, of Baton Rouge, was substituted. The Montana Territorial Democratic Convention met in Virginia City, on the 19th, and nominated Hon. Martin Maginnis as Delegate in Congress. In Chicago, on Sept. 20th, Spring Wheat No. 2 ciosed at 87c cash; SBc for October and 88%e for November. Cash Corn closed at 35%e for No. 2; 36)4 c for October, 37c for November. Cash Oats No. 2 eold at 19c; 20)j'c seller October. Rye No. 2, 45%c. Barley No. 2, (New) $1.05 for cash, $1.06 for October (New.) Uasht, Mess Pork closed at $8 65. Lard, $6.67)4. Beeves—Extra, [email protected]; Choice, $4 25@ 4.50; Good, $3 [email protected]; Medium Grades, [email protected]; Butchers’ Stock, [email protected]; Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs brought for Good to Choice. Sheep sold at [email protected] for Poor to Choice.

THE YELLOW FgVER. Samuel J. Powell, Masonic Grand Master of Louisiana, issued a circular, on the 16th, to the Masonic Grand Lodges of the United States, in which, after expressing the most profound gratitude for the large voluntary conttibutions made by the fraternity for the relief of the suffering members of the ciaft in Louisiana, he begs that they will cease such contributions, as ample funds had already been received. According to a New York telegram of the 16th, the total number of deaths in the country, this year, from yellow fever, up to and including Sept. 14, was 5,305, distributed as follows: New Orleans, La., 2,091; Baton Rouge, 30; Plaquemine, 3Z; Morgan City, 8; Port Eads, 8; Memphis, Tenn., 1,985; Grenada, Miss., 223; Holly Springs,76; Vicksburg, 566; Canton, 54; Port Gibson, 96; Ocean Springs, 9; Greenwile, 49; Lake, 12; Hickman, Ky., 26; Louisville, 7; Gallipolis, Ohio, 9; Cincinnati, 5; St. Louis, Mo., 10; Cairo, 111, 3; Chicago, 1. »- Measures were being taken, on the 18th, by the Postoffice Department, at Washington, to deliver mails to all quarantined cities in the South, and where routes were cut off by rai 1 - roads ceasing to run on account of quarantine regulations, or otherwise, Postmasters were instructed to try some other method to serve the public by delivering the mails regularly. A decrease in the number of deaths in all the Infected cities was reported, on the 19th, and the telegrams sent out were of a more hopeful nature. The fever had made its appearance in some of the smaller interior towns in Louisiana, and was very fatal. The Howard Association of Canton, Miss., published! a circular returning thanks for the aid rendered the citizens of that place, and stating that they were no longer in need of provisions .or money. The disease there was abating, and there were but few additional cases to report.

There was a heavy fall of rain at Memphis, on the 20tb, and the death list for twenty-four hours footed up sixty-eight. It was reported that the fever was raging most violently among many who had fled into the country back of, the city, thinking they had there found s safe refuge. The total number of deaths from yellow fever in Memphis, up to noon on the 20th, is reported at about 2,300, and in New Orleans at 2,368. In the latter Wty tile WjxJrts. on Ifie’ 36th, hnl'cated a'de-' crease of the disease in the central portion itid an increase.in the extreme upper and lower limit* ofthecity..l Two new cases but no deaths, at Grenada, on the 20th. All the doctors but one had left, and the publication of the Sentinel newspaper had been resumed. Up. to date.4l4 whites and fifty-seven negroes had died. Twelve new cases and three deaths were reported al Hickman, Ky., during jjjg twentyfour hours ending at noon, on the 30th. ’lTiebe were only about thirty whites remaining in the place, and the fever was attacking the negroes. . The general outlook at Jackson, Miss., showed but little abatement in the prevalence of the fever, on the 20th. There were fifteen deaths in Vicksburg, two in Lake and five in Canton. .The subscriptions for the yellow-fevir sufferers aggregated as follows in som ■ of the citiesthe- "Wttn New Yurt:, 8260,000; Philadelphia, over 8100,000; Chicago, 876,000; St. Louis, „BTO,OJO, and other cities anif smaller towns in proportionate amounts. ' •,

rOBZIUI IXTXLLIUBZCB. # Calcutta (India) dispatches of the 15th say that recent floods in the Jullluder District of funjaub had carried away over 1,000, housesAcconpiXG to Berlin dispatches of the 16th, the F.mpe/or William had decided to resume the reins of Governmi?nt|on the Ist of October. He had very nearly recovered from his wounds. The British Parliament lias* been further prorogued until Nov. 30. • A Vienna telegram of tlje 16th announces the capture of the Town of Samatz, on the River Save, after a vigorous bombardment. The Austrian loss was Insignificant. Midhat Pasha, the distinguished Turkish exile, iias been seconded permission to reside on tlie Island of Crete. Three Russian army corps have been ordered to return to Eastern Rumella. The Porte, having decided to concede nothing to Greece, the Government of the latter country has directed the formation of an army of 100,000 men with which to enforce* its demands. The Fenians, Condon and Melody, were discharged frffin Portland Prison, on the morning of the 17th, and immediately took passage on the steamer Moselle for New York. According to Vienna dispatches of thclß’h, the Austrians had, on the preceding day, captured Brczka, an insurgent town on the River Save, after a desperate fight, lasting from

sunrise until eight o’clock at night. They had also captured previously the Towns of Krespie and Dubrava, lying west of Brczka. Mrs. Bravo, who became notorious because of her connection with the Balhatn murder mystery some years ago, died in London, on the 18th. The recent general elections in Canada have resulted in the defeat of the Government. Jr consequence of the agitation and excitement In Hungary, the Austrian Goverrment deemed it expedient, bn the 19th, to announce its abanuonment ,of negotiations to secure the eo-operatibii of Servla and Montenegro in tlie occupation of Bosnia. The insurgent Fortress of Bihacs capitu lated unconditionally to the Austrians, on the 19th. Official announcement was made, rm the 19th, that the Paris Exposition would continue open until November 20. The Special Congregation of Cardinals has decided that the Pope should not leave the Vatican unless under special overruling circumstances. Montenegro has invited Bervia to join with her In resisting the Albanians. It is said that Gen. Komoroff, the Russian Commander strongly advises this course. Vienna dispatches cf the,l9th report a rising of the Croatian Christians. The Provisional Government of Bulgaria has been instructed by the Russians to summon all male inhabitants between the ages of twenty and twenty-two years to form a territorial army of-fifty battalions of infantry and seventy squadrons of cavalry. The King of Burnish, in India, is dead. Ax uneasy feeling prevailed in London, on the 20th, over the, prospective outcome of Lord Beaconsfield’S Indian policy. A war with Afghanistan was anticipated, and this, it was believed, would reopen the entire Eastern question. $ According to a Cracow (Poland) telegram of the 20th, mauy arrests had been made at Odessa and Kharkow, iq consequence oL the discovery of a plot to liberate the imprisoned Nihilists.

The Platform of the Massachusetts Republicans.

— At the late Republican State <Jonventioh which met at Worcester, Mass., the following platform was adopted: We, the Republicans of Massachusetts, in Convention assembled, resolve: 1. That the Republican party, inspired by its past, gathers increased courage for the work which remains to be done, renews its allegiance to the high,principles which have guided it thus far, and, having preserved the Nation’s existence. pledges itself to preserve the Nation’s honor. 2. That the Republican party is committed to the maintenance of the National credit and the keeping of the public faith with all creditors of the Nation. We rejoice that the resumption of specie payments has been so nearly accomplished. We insist that all lawful means shall be taken to insure such resumption within the time fixed by law; that all paper currency shall be redeemable in coin at the will of the holder, and that both coin-and currency shall be kept at all times at par with the gold standard of the commercial world. We believe that the American people are too honest to violate their pledge; are too intelligent to attempt to use as money anything which has neither value in itself nor represents value, and have too much regard for their honor and prosperity to prefer unredeemed and irredeemable promises instead of money which shall pass current at its full face value in every market in the world.

8. That the refunding of the National debt at a rate of interest should be earned forward as rapidly as is possible; that the strictest economy in expenditures should be used, and the industries of the country relieved from taxation so far as honor, good faith and necessity will permit; that the Civil Administration snould be maintained in its honesty and efficiency by the Executive Department, which should take the responsibility which belongs to it, of making nominations to office without dictation or control from other departments of the Government, and should, in the exercise of this power, use the same care and good judgment, and demand the same fidelrty and devotion to duty that are required in the management of import • ant business affairs; and we will cordially support every measure which -shall be needed to raise the Civil Service to the high plane of honesty and efficiency demanded by the Cincinnati platform and the President’s letter of acceptance. 4. That, mindful of the condition of the industries of the Commonwealth, and of the decline in the values of property and in the earn- ‘ rngs of labor and capital, it is the imperative duty of town and city Governments to use the strictest economy in the administration of public affairs. We de a and that the Legislature shall make no new grants of public moneys in aid of private enterprises. That the public indebtedness shall not be increased; that the reduction already made in the public expenditures shall be rigorously continued, and such changes made therein as may he for the benefit of the Commonwealth; that the system of taxation shall be so modified as that each person shall contribute only in proportion to what he is worth, tb the end that there shall be substantial relief from the existing burdens of taxation.! k 5. We commend the efficiency and integrity with which all departments of the State Government have lieen carried on. ana we denounce as false the chaigex of mismanagement made against its administration. Although the inflation of the currency has caused extravagance in pUbhcand private life, and influenced legislation without distinction of party to authorize unnecessary and unwise appropriations, which are not to be repeated, yet the State has been well and honorably governed. 6. Tnat the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has prospered Tor more than two centuries, because her citizens have believed tliat the interest of each is the interest of all and have labored together tor the Commonwealth; aud when this union of interest and action, which has endured through seasons of depression and disaster, ceases, her must pease also. wbo would foment diefiord by falsely teaching that our community is composed or hostile elassos, whose interests are antagonistic, are public enemies, whose defeat is essential to the public wel-j fare, and should Ixytccomplished by the united efforts of all Imnesf men. 7. Thatthe success of the bold attempt toplace an open repudiator in the Executive chair ol this renowned Commonwealth will be itn announcement so the world for the first lime i n her history that Massachusetts wavers in her devotion «o honest finance, and is indifferent to the sacredness ot the public taithi l 8. That the Republicans of Massachusetts will keep all their pledges an I will stand by the President of the United States in his efforts to keep his. We cordially commend the purposes and integrity of his Administ-atidn. his firmness in resisting to the limit of his Constitutional power all attempts to depreciate the currency or to violate the plighted faith of the Nation, and his constant endeavors to promote the restorat ion of good will and of Micial and commercial intercourse between citizens of all parts of the coun9. That we confidently reedmmend to the people,of Massachusetts the nominees of this Convention as men.whose character and ability are a guaranty thaf’Thcy will wisely, prudently and efficiently administer the government of the Commonwealth. > ” You want to this road, do you? Well, you caii' s|t dow'ri - there. We have no vacancy jifist at present; but we kill about two bffakemen a day, and I dare say in %Jew minutes I shall heat of some one losing an arm or a leg, and then you can have the job.” The man thought be would not wait.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —Half a loaf is better than a loaf all the time. . > —Let there be an end to the palpable falsehood that figures won’t /jg. —The man who broke the news was advised tobe more careful next time. —'A bad sign—To sign another man’s name to a note. Rogues should make a note of it.—JzcAanj/e. —With tears in his eyes, a young man announces that sliced onions will neutralize atmospheric poison. —Riches Will take to themselves wings and fly away, unless you sprinkle the salt of economy on their tails. —lt costs as much to bury a man decently in New York as it does to live for six months in line style in London. —Shakespeare tells us that “ Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye,” but does not say where he keeps his clock. —A Paris case strikes Americans with awe by displaying among its edibles, *• Ponkeen piah.”— Chicago Commercial Advertiser. —The South Hill man calls his wife's false teeth “ things” because •• they are not what they seem.” — .Burlington Hawk-Eye. —The young man who has any prudence about him will write his love letters in cipher and forget the key.—Detroit Free Press. —A lady traveler says that she never finds a newspaper or a clock in. the ladies’ parlor of a hotel; butthat she always finds a mirror.— New York Herald. —Kentucky claims that it is an evidence of the faithfulness of her male population that there are no grass widows to be found in the Blue Grass region. —There is nothing in art that can counterfeit the expression on the face of a man who has a raspberry sCied under the plate of his false teeth.—Rockland Courier? — —- t -

—When fast young men in Reno get into a dispute, instead of resorting to blows they go into the nearest saloon and shake the dice to see which is the liar— Boston Daily Advertiser. —An Irishman greeted his brother, who had eseaped almost miraculously at an explosion of some powder mills, in this wise; “I am glad ye’s had such a narrow escape.”— Boston Post. —“ Lip-service,” said the preacher, earnestly, “is not acceptable.” “ No,” muttered a Constable in the audience, ‘ ‘ nothing sticks but a written summons and a personal service.”— Hawk-Eye. —The New Haven Palladium quotes the following couplet from Matthew Prior to show that “ Whoa, Emma,” is a plagiarism: O day. the fairest one that ever rose, Period and end of anxious Emma’s woes. —K was a spectacle of a horse running away with two women in a buggy which inspired Shakespeare to write: One whoa doth tread upon another’s heel—--80 fast they follow. —Agricultural papers Are always harping on the intelligence of beefi, but the drove of mosquitoes which waits at the key-hole until the family are in bed, are passed over as slightingly as you please.— Detroit Free Press. —The Nation thinks that a part of the drill of every girls’ school ought to be the reception by a wife in an old gown to a dinner of corned beef and cabbage of an unlooked-for guest thoughtlessly brought home by a reckless husband. writer in a recent number of the Journal of the English Statistical Society on " Failures in England and Wales” has pointed out that there seems to be some relation between the number of failures and sun-spot periods, just as there is between famines and the periodicity of the same solar phenomenon. —A Bergen County man pleasantly sat down at breaklast, and his loving wife said “ Darling, does your head ache?” He replied, with sufficient dignity, “No; why should you ask?” And she said back, “ Well, dear, yon came in at three o’clock this morning, and as you couldn’t hang your hat on the rack you put the rack down on

the floor, and said you’d hang every hat in the house ou it; and I thought your head might ache.”— N. Y. Herald. —A Detroit lawyer went out shooting yesterday. He tied his horse to a sapling by the side of the road and skirmished around the neighborhood an hour or two for game. He was unsuccessful, of course. When he returned to his vehicle he found that he had tied his horse in the midst of a hornet’s nest. The insects were wide awake and lull of business, and they were making it exceedingly warm for the poor horse. The animal was plunging about, lying down, rolling over, and had tangled itself in the harness and reins inextricably. How to release it was one of the most serious questions which had ever presented itself for the lawyer’s consideration. Finally, he went to a neighboring farmhouse, borrowed an ax and a bed-blan-ket, and with the latter over his head proceeded to cut down the sapling. The hornets gut under the blanket and urged him on to his task by their own fieculiar process. He felled the saving, but it was too heavy for the animal to remove from the spot, and he had to resort to other methods, the hornets meanwhile prodding him in front and rear. The establishment was eventually rescued, however, and set in motion homeward. The amateur hunter now entertains enlarged views of country enjoyments, ana wears three poultices and a bad-looking nose.—Detroit Post and Tribune.

The Election in Maine.

Monday’s election possesses emphatic political significance. Maine is a Commonwealth which has ranked as one of the reliably Republican States since the organization of that party. It has for twenty-two years annually placed a Republican in its Executive chair, and in that time has sent but one Democrat (L. M. D. Sweat, of Portland,) to the House of Representatives. During this time the Democratic organization in Maine has steadily preserved its vigor, despite its chronic minority condition, ana has never failed to make an active campaign an indispensable preliminary to any important Republican victory. The date of the annual election has as to make the contest in that State in the years of general elections both important and spirited, and politicians have always awaited its returns as affording the earliest instructive indications of the drift of any uncalculated currents of public sentiments. In 1876 the Greenback party began systematic work inMaine, effected a skeleton organization, and managed to gain a foothold in districts which were suffering from the prostration of the ship-building and lumber interest*.

But it polled only slightly over 500 votes in the September election of that year, and did not give but about 650 to the Electoral ticket of Cooper and Cary. The agitation, however, was kept up, and in last year’s Gfiibernational election over 5,250 votes were given to the Greenback candidate. Throughout last fall and winter, while Republicans and Democrats relaxed party work, the holding of Greenback meetings, the-organization of Green- . back clubs, and the circulation of (greenback papers were untiringly pushed, add at the town-meetings of last spring upwards of 20,000 votes were cast for local candidates on Greenback tickets. From that time until early summer there was a rush into the Greenback organization, and its spreading for weeks seemed like an epidemic. At the usual’time the “ old parties” placed their tickets in the field and commenced work. Their treatment of the new factor in the contest was characteristic. The Republican ConvenItion declared for a policy of uncompromising hostility to that party, and its papers and its speakers have fought the campaign through unflinchingly and courageously upon that line. The Democracy, true to its mischievous instincts, went half way to “ Nationalism” in its platform and the whole distance in its tactics, going even to the extent of a complete alliance with the “Greenbackers” in one Congressional District and in seven of the sixteen counties. — : The Republicans have not swept the State; they have not elected a solid Congressional delegation; they have unsecured the large Legislative majorities which have been theirs usually. But by the courage and the honesty and the sterling good sense of their canvass they have held firmly together the great mass of their vote and have maintained the integrity of their organization. The Democracy has not even saved honor from its wreck. Its voters have deserted by thousands into the “National” ranks. Of the three parties it is the lowest in the poll. With the cheap cunning, sp characteristic of its petty leaders, hundreds of its votes were cast for “ National” candidates in special cases; the aim of these tactics was merely Republican damage, but the net result has been its own disastrous overshadowing by the apparent “National”strength. The “Nationals” have demonstrated their importance as a factor in present political contests. Their actual successes in Maine were chiefly due' to Democratic assistance. The Republican plurality in Maine is large, and the vote but slightly diminished from the average. Every week of active campaigning improved Republican prospects, and the only mistake in the tight was the delay in its commencement. The result establishes these facts: That “ Nationalism” means placing the Legislative power of the Government in the hands of demagogues like Ladd and Murch. That the Republican is the only party which possesses the requisite vigor for meeting this dangerous assailant. That the vitality of the Democracy is so sapped by “Nationalism” that it affords a pathway for rather than a barrier against that public peril. — Detroit Post and Tribune.

Maine and Indiana.

On one account we are glad the Maine election resulted as it did. We do not mean to say we are glad the Republicans failed to carry the State, although their failure to do so is far more honorable under the circumstances than the success of their opponents. The Republican party has Jost an election, but has maintained its honor, organization and prestige; the combined Democrats and Nationals have partially won an election at the cost of everything else. Those who regard politics as merely a series of schemes to secure temporary success will say the Democrats and Nationals have achieved a triumph; but those who regard the preservation of political principles arid party organization as of anv account will say they have suffered a disastrous defeat. But, putting this phase of the question aside, we repeat we are glad on one account that the election resulted as it did. It has shown the Republicans of Indiana precisely what they have to do. Their work is now cut out for them. They have to beat the combined forces of the Democrats and Nationals. The result in Maine shows - that these parties have “pooled their issues,” to use the language of one of their leaders. In Maine the Greenbackers swallowed the Democracy. In this State each party is trying to swallow the other, the "only question being which has the biggest maw and the most accommodating stomach. It matters little which succeeds. Each is willing •to swallow or be swallowed, as circumstances may seem to require. So far as the Republican party is concerned, it is of no consequence whether the Democracy swallow the Nationals or the Nationals the Democracy. The Republican party has got to fight them both, and we do not hesitate to say that in our deliberate judgment it can whip them both. We do not mean that it can whip them in the long run, for of that there is no doubt whatever. The ultimate triumph of the Republican party over the combined elements of dishonesty, inflation and repudiation is assured beyond the possibility of a doubt. But we do not refer to the final outcome. We say the Republicans of Indiana can beat the combined forcesof the Democrats and Nationals this year. They not only can, but jirilh—Jheywould do it if the -election wereto take place to-morrow, and they will do it far more certainly in October. Every day that passes the Democratic party in Indiana is becoming more demoralized and the National party is losing strength. Every day that passes the Republican party is, gaining ground and votes. It has not been mas good shape for many years past as it is day in respect of organization, effectiveness of party machinery and harmony and hopefulness of feeling. All that is necessary to insure a Republican victory in the State is to bring out a full Republican vote. Indiana is a Republican Stbte, and nothing cap prevent it being so recorded in Odtober except apathy on the part of Republicans themselves, or fraud on the part of their opponents. The Maine election, by showing them, preoisely what they have to do, should, and we believe will, spur them to greater efforts in the caupe of honest money and good government. The Republican party in Indiana is much stronger than if it Eatidered to the Greenback craze. The democratic party is all the weaker for having done ao7 If Republicans do their duty they can gloriously beat the hybrid combination opposed to them. —lndianapolis Journal. ——. * i— • The most notorious girl; of. the period is now known as Em Bezzle,

INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.

—A Florida fanner fainted in his barn-yard, and the hogs ate off the calves of his legs. —A collision between the great steamer Faraday, during her recent voyage from New York, and a large emigrant ship, was averted by the use of the electric light. It was on the Banks of Newfoundland, at night, during a danse fog, that the brilliant light on the steamer revealed the sailing vessel straight ahead. There was just time to reverse the engines and prevent what would have been an awful catastropher—- “ —Mr. Bishop, the guide at the Profile House, in the White Mountains, recently loosened a rock that weighed at least three tons, on Canyon Mountain, about twenty rods north of the Old Man of the Mountain. It went plunging down toward I the Pemigewassct, cutting off trees a foot in diameter, and making a complete path through the woods in its descent. It filled tne air with stones and made a terrific noise. Persons in that neighborhood who were in the woods ran for their lives. —A young Frenchman died in Lyons, recently, from the effects of lighting a match. He scratched it with nis thumb-nail, and a piece of the incandescent phosphorus penetrated under the nail and made a slight burn, to which he paid no attention. But, after an hour, tne pain became very great, the thumb swelled, then the hand and next the forearm. He was obliged to alight at the first station and send fora medical man, who declared that instant amputation of the arm was necessary. The patient insisted on postponing the operation for a few hours until the arrival of his father, for whom he had telegraphed. But before the latter could reach the spot it was too late; the poisonous matter had passed into the arm and shoulder, and an operation was impossible. He died twentyseven hours after the burn, in horrible agony —A little brother who had been sent by his big sister to the Postoffice in Arkport, near Hornellsville, N. Y., found a letter in the box. It was addressed to his sister. He tore it open and handed it to the Postmaster with the remark: “ See if there is anything important in it. If not I will not go right back home with it.” The Postmaster glanced at its contents as requested. He saw that it was from a young man of the place, who asked to meet the young lady. He told the boy he did not think the letter was very important. Afterward the young lady went to the Postoffice and asked for the letter. It was given her, and when she found it had been opened she accused the Postmaster of having done it. Her brother, to shield himself, declared that the Postmaster had opened it. The consequence was that a Special Agent was ordered to investigate the case, and a number of witnesses testified that they saw the sftiall boy open the letter himself.

—A good-looking young Irish woman walked into the Jersey City Police headquarters the other morning, and inquired for Chief Nathan, and, on his appearance, told him she wished to be arrested for murdering her child. The astonished Chief, satisfying himself she was sober and rational, took her to his office, where she told her story, crying violently. She said her name was Mary Phillips. She was the wife of Isaac Phillips, a plumber, of Jersey City. She was married a year and a half ago, and theissueof the union was a son, who, at the time of his death, was five, months old. -Her husband’s family were, she alleged, most bitterly opposed to the marriage, but that did not prevent the young couple from making their home with them. Life with them finally became unendurable, she says, and she determined to leave and earn her own living. She got a situation in New York, but her relatives refused to keep her baby, and told her she must look after him. She took him with her into the streets. Discouraged, she knew not where to go with him, and finally resolved to kill both herself and the child. She bought some laudanum, took part of it herself and gave the baby the rest. She was not affected beyond vomiting, but in a little time the baby died, despite her frantic efforts to rouse him. She returned to her husband, and they buried the baby the same day. Since then She had been unable tb sleep, and was going mad from her guilty conscience.

A Sharp Trick by Two Tramps.

Flood and Bruce are peripatetic printers, widely known. They have a habit of turning up here and elsewhere when least expected, coming without warning and departing even as the wind. By a rare chance they have just been heard from at Danville, 111., tramping from St. Louis, and headed in this direction. They came within view of that city last Sunday, weary with travel and sorely hungered. The road they came has beeij overworked. The erstwhile hospitable farmer now sets his dog on the wayfaring man instead of welcoming him to his family. Through this departure from the customs of the fathers, they walked and ate not. Thoroughly discouraged at their repeated failures to procure food, they yet concluded to make one more trial on this beautiful Sunday morning, and cautiously entered the yard of a decent farm-house, peering about them to see that Towser did not come suddenly around a corner. They knocked on*the front door; no At the side door;uo ans wer They went in. Thert) was not a soul at home. A table spread and a most substantial meal was before them. It was like a dream from the Arabian nights. The dinner was, doubtless, awaiting the return of the family from church. The pedestrians fsl to, and their knives and forks soon smoked with the friction of execution. To say that they fared surttptuously would convey ho idea of the amount they ate nor the intense satisfaction with which the viands were received. As they were finishing the feast a knock was heard. Bruce, with unparalleled cheek, went to the door. There stood two 1 other tramps, who asked for something to eat. Bruce, in a rare spirit of mischief, questioned them closely in regard to their travels, and finally asked if they would chop wood for "dmners. They answered yes. He then took them to a wood-pile that he had noticed in the rear Of the house, and thev went to work. Bruce and Flood, ‘filling their pockets with victuals, stole out the side way from ttte house and went to -a neighboring hill, where thej- had a full view of the wood-pile and the toiling tramps. There they gloated over the picture. To make their measure of enjoyment’ tun over,“the owner of the farmhouse with several daughters and two stalwart sons arrived on the scene, the devastation of the dinner was discovered,

and the two sweating tramps at the wootj-pile seized as the depredators. All was seen by the two on the hill, from the arrival of the family to the ignominious expulsion of the wood-cut-ters.— Indianapolis News.

By No Means a Langhing Matter The Yellow-Fever Horror in Memphis.

Memphia people »i«itinii Boetofi lenph nt the report* of the panic which the AMo-iMcd Preu haaaent North. They «ay thing* urn not nc»<rjy ao bed. The above, from a Boston paper, was sent to one of the -telegraph operatois employed h6re by the Western Union Telegraph Company, and by Mr. Catron, the local agent of the Western Associated Press, to whom he gave it, was handed to us. We would give worlds, had we them to give, to know the names of the Memphians, who, absenting themselves from their home from fear of the fever, mock at the pangs ami sufferings of 3,000 sink, laugh over the twelve hundred dead men, women and children who sleep in Elmwood and Calvary Cemeteries, and Potter’slicld, and deride the needy widows and orphans, and hungry, unemployed laborers, who clamor for the food doled out to them dav by day, the charity, not of Memphis people, who enjoy Boston and laugh over the press reports, but, thank God! of millions who never met any Memphians, but who are moved by the plain, simple, unvarnished statements of Mr. Catron, who, to our knowledge, has always been under rather than over the mark. Memphis people visiting Boston may laugh, but we, who are here, are daily, hourly, in tears for the manly men and saintly women, many of whom might have fled, but who preferred to share the fate of their humbler fellow-citizens, and have fallen in the cause of humanity. But there must be some mistake about it. Surely there is not one of all the thousands of Memphians who are safe from the pestilence that takes its hundreds per day or more, who would laugh over the reports, even though they were exagwhich they are not Surely there is not one so lost to shame, to the commonest decency, as to laugh while all the world is serious over our sorrow, and the open hand of charity ministers to our wants from all parts of the earth. To lose over 1,200 men, women and children in twentyseven days, out of a population of 15,000, white and black, and to be expending over SIO,OOO for 1,200 hurses and forty doctors, and for medicines and food for more than 8,000 sick and 10,000 indigent, is to us a sad reality, enough to move even a stone to tears. But, beside this, there come the tales of individual sorrow; of whole families swept away in a week, leaving not even one of the name; of nurses dying at their posts, of priests and ministers, and good sisters following those they succored so fast as to appal the stoutest heart, and “give us pause” amid the general wreck and ruin. No pen can do these scenes and sights justice; no tongue exaggerate them. Lisping childhood, hoary and venerable old age, the ya-*’ grant and the merchant, the man of God and the unbeliever, all are taken, "all claimedalike by the awful pestilence. It thins all ranks, and brings sorrow to the mansion, the cottage and the cabin. The cry of the fatherless is heard every hour, claiming the pity, the sympathy and the tears of the most hardened veteran. In this office, as we write, there are but two left of all. who a month ago were employed in the editorial, counting and composing rooms, and our pressman is down with the fever. Strangers to the office, as to the business, are attending to our affairs while the only editor left on duty alternates, through sixteen hours a day, between his desk and a case. This is our personal measure of the dreadful epidemic, and surely it is a sad one. It has moved us to tears many a time the past

ten days, although we are not used to the melting mood. Our experience is one we will never forget, and it is a common one. The fifth epidemic we have passed through, this surpasses them all in the horrors it has uncovered. Parents have deserted children, and children parents, husbands their wives y but not one wife a husband. Men have dropped dead on the streets, while others have died neglected, only to be discovered by the death-spreading gases from their bodies. Little children, clamoring for the food she could no longer give, have appealed to the dead mothey, who gave up her spirit as she gave birth to her last, in an agony of the feter. Ministers of the Gospel, carrying messages of peace, hurrying from house to house, have had their weary feet arrested and their work stayed by the pestilence, that walks in the noonday as at night. The priest administering the extreme unction, and’ the bride of Christ, wiping the deathdamp from the forehead of those whose friends and kinfolk are far away, are almost paralyzed in the sacred act, and die ? even before we know they are sick. The business of the hour is the succor of the sick, Jhe burial of the dead and the care of the needy living. The last words of those who are well are at night farewells to the dead, and the first in the morning, “ Who lives and who has diedf” All day, and every hour of the day, this question is repeated, and the heart sickens at the report, and the soul grows weary over the repetition. And yet there is no relief nor any release. Worse and worse the epidemic has grown, until to-day it has capped the climax, and the hearts of the brave men who have stood in the breach are blanched witfejear,-with a dread-that annihilation awaits us, and that w ; e are destluedwbo Fear sits on every face and dread on every heart. We work, not in the shadow, but in the very face of death. We meet him on every hand and at every moment in the names of his victims and in the desolation he has spread about us. t Hone we have none. We despair Ofany relief, but we are nerved for the end. We pray blessings upon the generous who have helped UB in All the States; we pray for the safety of those who have come among us to nurse the sick and minister to the dying, and we ask tbit the names of the women and the men who have laid down their lives for us shall be handed down forever as among the brightest and the best of earth-—Afempiis Appeal Cucumber Catsup.—Take overgrown cucumbers, before they turn yellow, peel, and grate on a very coarse, grater. Allow the pulp to drain-Ofr-a colander, then jjjft through a coarse sieve to separate the seeds. Half fill wide-mouthed bottles or preserving |ars With this pulp, and fill, up with good vinegar. When served, add salt and pepper. It has precisely the odor and flavor of fresh cucumbers, and makesan acceptable accompaniment —r - An English scientist, ib is said, has discovered that lying-produces a huskiness ot the throat,