Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1880 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1880.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20.

UENERAL NOTES. Thb poet Whittler wai seventy-three Tears old last Friday. Mbs. Jeshe 6EA5T ii abloade and i3 Terr girlish In appearance. ' Bo beet Toombs Is gradually getting hU estate ia shape. He recently gare away 1,000 acre ol Texaa land. Johs Clat, a brother of Henry Clay, U still living In Kentucky, and bid fair to last for many years. Henry Clay' estate, of Ashland, is going to decay. Colonel Jon F. Mosbt writes from Hong Kong to a friend in Alexandria, Va., that he certainly will arriTC in this country about the first of February. Owe of the Incidents of General Grant's reception at Washington the other day was a "onearmed brigade," composed exclusively of onearmed veterans. Omo has telegraphed to Mr. ITayes: "Flease do not appoint any more officers from this State just at present. We would like to get a quorum in the Legislature." Thz ehances for Karon's being Speaker increase as the Western States coincido In the demand that Iowa hall have large recognition from the Republican party. Jon C. CAUiors, a grandson of the notod South Carolina Senator, was drowned near San Francisco the other day. lie was dissolute, and recently lost bis mind. Tils New York Sun calls on Congress to vote Samuel J. Tilden $200,000 as his Presidential salary, and interest, before it votes any position or any mney to General Grant. It is chdmed that Robeson has about given up his fight for the New Jersey Senatorship and that he will throw his influence for Ilalsey. Otherwise Sewell Is ahead in the race. Senator Hannibal Hamlin, who i3 spoken of for Collector of Customs either at Portland or Boston, was born in 1S09. He began hia service to the Federal Government in 1S43. A Canadian paper reports that an Irish resident of Pembroke, being about to return to Ireland, sold his wife and family for 5100 to a fellow countryman. Formal articles were signed. Seretart Thompson received the chiefs ot the Bureau cf the Navy Department, and listened to an address full of regrets from them. He responded in a kind little speech of farewell. Mrs. Senator Logan superintends her husband's correspondence, dictating to a stenographer for hours at a time. She also assists the Senator in collecting materials for reports and addresses. Mrs. Garfield recently received a letter from a lady proposing that if she would procure the appointment of postmaster ior her husband she would give her a switch made from her own hair. Ml Garfield, his wife, and the young lady who Is to assist in doing the honors of the White noose, have all been school teachers. The reins of government will now bo kept taut Boston Transcript. It Is stated that the family of J. W. Mackey, the bonanza king, live in Paris at the rate of nearly 1,000,000 per annum. They are all right for 100 years, anyhow, as Mackey Is worth over 5100.000,000. Eyangeust MooDT'a- Seminary at Northamp ton, Mass., is full, containing now about 100 pupils, including the Indian girls. The latter are making excellent progress in their studies. They are very fond of music. Mrs. McCrE, of Rhode Island, one of the women with whom Mrs. Sprague accuses her husband of beit'g intimate, denies it most bitterly, and baa written a letter to Mrs. Sprague demanding a public retraction. Judge Strong, who is retiring from the Supreme Bench, was formerly engaged with Simon Cumeron and others in building a railroad from Reading to Harrisburg, which was leased to the Reading Railroad Company. It is stated that Justice Strong was offered the position of Secretary of the Navy after retiring from the Supreme Bench, bnt there being some legal doubtt regarding a pensioned officer filling a Cabinet position, he declined. Genebal Hancock will not bo forgotten so long as hickory trees grow walking-sticks. He has just been presented with a silver-mounted cane, the wood of which came from the Montgomery County farm where he was bom. Ma. J. W. Mackey, of bonanza fame, has gone to join his family in Paris. A bonanza man has a nice time. He works sixteen hours a day, is abused by everybody, and gets a chance to see hia family once evtry two or three years. General G aribaldi's health has bcea entirely restored by hi residence on the Genoese coast. He frequently visits the villages along the shore in a canoe or small boat. His friends believe that he will live ten years longer, at least. Senator Burnside is one of the great dinnergivers of Washington. He entertains like a Prince. He has his camp servants and cook retained siace his army days. The butter and vegetables he uses are raised on the Senator's farm in Rhode Island. Tke New York nerald thinks General Bhcrman shows too much sensitiveness over the scheme to make General Grant Captain General, and says: "It would have teemed more graceful on the part of General Sherman to acquiesce in the movement which seems to annoy him." Thomas C. Wales, a Boston merchant, died a lew days ago and was followed to the grave by an immense concourse of people. In 1839 he failed, paying fifty cents on the dollar. In 1S59 he paid the remaining fifty cents, and in 1S66 he paid the Interest of twenty-two years on the principalFaclHoao, spoken of in Whlttier's beautiful poem, -Among the Hills is dead. He was born and always lived in Sandwich, K. H. "Neither his house nor his barn knew locks or bars, yet the most wretched tramp who ever took the road ever abused the free hospitality of that Quäler home." . A certain lawyer was compelled to apologize to trie Court. Y lui steaay aignity no rose in nis Tlace and said: "Your Honor la right and I am wrong, as your Honor geuerally u." The Judge hardly knew whether to feel happy or fine the lawyer for contempt of Court. A Norwich, Conn., firm makes frequent ship ments of live frogs to various pans oi we coun try, but principally to New York and Buffalo The frogs are caught in the ponds of the surround log towns, and prove a source of considerable revenue to the Juveniles, wao receive seventy-five cento to 11.25 per dozen. They are shipped alive, after being properly fattened for the market. They are fed before shipment on fish. Dx. Chalmers said, just before his marriage: "Dismtesing all anticipations of Heaven upon earth, may I betake myself soberly and determin ed! v to the duties of the married state." w bit field Informed hia fiancee that he was free from the eiddvtaaeion that the world call love. Ra cine married because his confessor advised it, telling the poet that by that means he might over come hia unfortunate propensity f or v making verses. Andrew's Bazaar, the fashion magazine, says "'gathered waists are very much worn." If the men would gather the waists carefully, and 'not quceze so like blazes, they would not be worn so much. Some men go to work gathering a waist Jest as they would go to work washing sheep, ( 0 raking and binding. They ought to gather a -waist as though it was eggs, done up in a xunneihapeel brown paper at a grocery .8. B. Anthony. " Ma. P. -7. BARNrsi, the veteran showman, who hu teoa lßg ill la New York City for some time

past, aske the prayers of the clergy and congre gatloP'1 b-is home in Bridgeport Cost)., on Sundo,, in the following words: " In a spirit of firm reliance on the omnipotent arm of Him who doeth all things well, I hereby request the prayers of all the congregations of Bridgeport for His blessing to rest upon me, with thanksgiving for all the mercies wii ich I have hitherto so abundantly received at Hia hands." Bvron wrote "The Corsair" In ten days, at the rate of 200 lines per day ; Lope de Vega wrote 300 dramas in 100 days; Voltaire composed "Zaire" in three weeks and "Otymple" in- six days; Dryden wrote his "Ode to St. Cecelia" at one sitting, and Mrs. Browning's "The Lady Geraldine's Cortship" was the work of twelve hours. Shakespeare, Dickens, Wordsworth and Moore, on the other hand, were slow workers. HcDworth Dixon re wrote hU "Two Queens" eight times, and Kinglake's "Eothen" was rewritten five or six times. Colonel Thomas Scotts activity has been great enough to wear out three ordinary men. Some idea of it may be gathered from the loquacity of a man who supplied him in Washington with horses and carriages. "It was no unusual thing," he said, "for Colonel Scott to keep a carriage for twenty-four hours. He would order the team and drive as if he was behind a pair of iron horses. How they would fly! Then he would make a stop of perhaps two r three hours in front of some prominent man's house. Then he would be off again, and so keep it up for a whole day and night We got to know him, and kept an eye about, and after the horses began to get jaded a frosh pair would be run to the place where he alighted and a change made. Why, a f.7) job was always certain with Colonel Scott. He was a wonder."

The White House Dinner Service. New York Tribue. A duplicate autograph set of the White House porcelain service made by Ilavilaml tt Co., of Limoges, for the Executive Mansion has been recently received by Haviland, Merritt & Co., of No. 14 Harclay street, New York. The set comprises 135 pieces, decorated with designs by Theodore IL Davis, illustrating exclusively American fauna and flora. In the oyster plates the colors are laid upon the china clay tinder the glaze, both being fired at the same time. Five Blue Point oyster-shells cover the principal portion of the plate, beyond "which is a cluster of the raccoon oysters of the Southern Mates surrounded by seaweed on a background representing the ocean. The oup r late are shaped like a ten-sided angular bowl, the contour conforming to the base and edges of the laurel flower. An Indian sitting on the verge of a cataract, the palmetto cabbage, the harvest moon shining ujon a field of Indian corn and pumpkins, a mountain cabin with tomatoes placed on a board to ripen in the sun. a green turtle crawling between the ribs of an old wreck on a Florida reef, a clam-bake, a frog sitting on a stone in a summer shower, and an old-fashioned open fireplace and swinging crane of a New England home are among the designs of the souj-pIates. The fish-platter is rectangular in forai, with comers rolled in and enriched with gold. The design represents a huge shad struggling to free itself from the meshes of a net. llach plate gives a spirited representation of a different kind of lisk in the water. The platter for the roast shows a magnifi cent turkey standing proudly out upon the snow against a high-colored sunset. Among the designs on the plates, which arc coupe in form, with narrow rim, are the mayflower, a bear which has disturbed a hive of wild bees, while hia mate enjoys tiie situation from underneath the trees, a buffalo dying in a "blizzard," surrounded by hungry coyotes; a "coon" hunt by torchligh, the collared peccary of Texas, a deer startled and gazing at a "jacklighr," and the "cranes' walk-around." The game platter otters a canvas-back duck floating about and Ci lucking wild celery. Several kinds of game ird. from the grouse and ptarmigan to the rice bird, are represented. Among the chincapins, pawpaws and grapes adorning the fruit plates is a design showing a New England sugar-camp, and another of bears reveling in nails of buckle-! berries, the owner of which has been frightened away. Xht artist's studio on the seashore at Asbury Park is also shown. The form of the collee cup is derived from a joint of bamboo, a sprout springing from the eye simulating the handle. The handle of the teacup, which is shaped like a mandarin's hat Inverted, is formed by the stem of a tea plant, the leaves decorating the outside. The interior ia a delicate green, tlte saucer and outside beingenriched with dead gold. An independent butter-plate repre sents the leaf of the white water-lily, upon which is a drop of water. An Ex-United States Consul Dying in a Station House. I Washington Star. An old man, seventy-two years old, named James Madison Tarleton, a native of New Hampshire, but who has been about this city for several yer-rs past, having a lodgingroom at Mr. Uurke a. corner ot Ihirteen and D street., was taken sick at a lunch house, No. 419 Tenth street, yesterday, and was a few hours afterward removed to the police station house, nearly opposite, and Dr. John Walter called in to attend him. Te Doctor found him in a very low condition from pneumonia, and advised that he be permitted to remain there, as he was too feeble to' ride to the hospital, and could not probably survive many hours. Subsequently Father Walter, of St l'atrick'a Church, was called in by- request of some om to oner fpintuai consolation, but the old man was unconscious. He appeared to be destitute of proper clothing, and the care necessary for an invalid of Jus age. A mattress was spread on a table in the prisoner's room, on which he was laid, the room being kept comfortably warm, and Mrs. Tonnett, a lady residing in that neighbood, kindly prepared some warm tea for him, but he could not swallow. Dr. Walter remained with him for some time, but at a late hour last night there was no favorable symptom. It was ascertained that he had been in much better circumstances once, lie was United States Consul at Melbourne, Australia, under Presidents Pierce and Killmore, and subsequently was a successful merchant at Mobile, Ala.: but the war broke up his business, and misfortunes following, reduced him to want and Mckncs. He was without friends or means. Mr. Burke has furnished him with a lodging room for the last four years without charge. This morning Mrs. Hannah McL. Shejvherd, residing at No. 2320 G street, Northwest, who knew Mr. Tarleton at Melbourne, on hearing of his condition, sent to the Sta tion House and had him removed to the residence of her family for proper care and nursing. He was very low when taken away in an ambulance, and ia not expected to recover. This morning he was still breathing with great difficulty, but was in an unconscious condition, utterly unable to take medicine or nourishment DEATU'S dance. Fatal Termination of m Christmas Eve Ball A Marshal Stabbed to Death. ISpeclal Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Clintow. Ind., Dec. 25. What was intended to be a merry Christmas Eve gathering terminated in a terrible tragedy at 2 o'clock this morning. During the progress of a ball given by one of the various Clubs of our city, a quarrel arose, which brought about ' a general light, in which several young men engaged. Mr. H. FiLzpatrick, the City Marshal, was called upon by the management to quiet the disturbance. He responded to the call at once, and endeavored to quiet the parties, and in doing so was stabbed several tinier, from the erfWct of which he died ia a few minutes, i Isaac Fought was alto dangerously stabbed, and several others wounded in the right. A young man named O. W. Shirley, who was seen to display an uglylookins knife darin? the melee, was arrcstI ed and held pa the charge of murder.

THE ARKANSAS TKAYELEB.

Rebuilding a Southern State Manners, Customs and Desires of the Teople. The Accumulative Carpet-Itagger, and the Present status of the AfricanInteresting Letter from Luther Bentou, All of what Indianapolis is to Indiana Little Kock is to Arkansas the largest city in the State, as well as the commercial and political center. Three great railroads pour a tide of trade and travel into the metropolis, but the Arkansas Kiver is the most powerful business artery. The location of the city upon the stream, near the confluence with the Mississippi, gives it an advantage that no number of freight lines will make up for inland towns. The employment given to vast numbers of men by the railroad shop, together with the shipping of cotton the great staple and quite universal industry imparts an atmosphere of briskness that I have witnessed in no other place. TI1E CLIMATE. The weather, akin to the mild, sleepy temperature of an Indiana April, when it threatens to burst or bud into full-blown spring, attests that I am in a latitude where the winters are not severe. SATfRAL ADVANTAGES. Arkansas is especially rich in soil, climate, minerals, timber and area of land susceptible of cultivation. Nor is the State's geographical location, the unequaled market always at her doors, the least of her attractions to wise emigrants and settlers. To those who make no studv of the causes it would seem Btrange that people push West into far Kansas, or still further Nebraska, where they must undergo the hardships and endure the privations incident to pioneer life, amid seasons of relentless inclemency. But these advantages of the State, notwithstanding the political adversities, havo not gone wholly unnoticed by home seekers, and, as a consequence, the population has almost doubled within the last ten years. Hut a small fraction of this people was here during the war, to say nothing of the number who participated in the Rebellion. THE FESTIVE CARPET-BAGGER. All of what the grasshopper and drouth was to Kansas, Republican supremacy and the character of otlicers it spawned in high places, was to Arkansas. It entailed upon the Commonwealth a burden of debt that generations of toil and frugality can only liquidate. When in the name of loyalty, in lstO., the Government of this State was taken from the people, the public debt on all accounts was $.'5.202,491.50. At that time there was upon hand in the State Treasury the sum of $31'J,2'57.35. Between July 3, of that year, and October 1, 1S74, there was paid into the Treasury the sum of $G,G74,511.05 something over $1,000,000 jr annum. A faithful estimate shows that a proper administration of the State Government between the vears 1SG3 and 1874 would have cost not more than $1,800,000. The floating debt added to what was collected gives a total of $8,532,223.59, the amount stolen. This is enough to have made reasonably rich, at least a half dozen Secretaries of the Republican National Committee. Nor is this all. The plunderers, while fraudulently holding the otlices, voted land, railroad and County bonds, by the million, and afterward manipalated them in their own interest, besides saddling upon the State a bonded debt of $18,000,000. When the State fell into the hands of the people the Treasury was as barren of dollara as the Desert of Arabia is of vegetation. The Governor told me to day, that the State was being run upon borrowed money. Why the South is solid, is not very strange after all, when we come to think upon the subject. TUE NEGKO. While the Republican party was in power it perpetrated the great mistake of its life, by refusing, to divide the offices with the negroes. The Democrats control every County in the State but four, and there are' more negroes in public positions than at any time within the history of the Commonwealth. The African hero appears happy and contented, and nowhere does he And such a friend as his old master and with the people who have alwavs been accustomed to iiini. I am thoroughly satisfied that the law is not discriminating that he has every right. Labor is plenty and remunerative, and I am glad that the black man is accu mulating propertv. as at tne ortn, in proportion as lie becomes rich, he becomes respected. It is one of the peculiarities t money borrowing that it knows no distinction in race, color or previous condition of servitude. societt. I have not had the experience oi the fabled Arkansas Traveler. The people are cosmopolitan. They demre immigration, and are so busily engaged in building up the waste places and founding new homes that thpv care but verv little for Dolitics. Thev are bright, intelligent and thrifty. The tiooresthave an abundance, lhe statistics show that according to the number of in habitants but very little crime is committed. It is only for id e hands that Satan finds-work, and that lets the Arkansas peo ple out , A SAMPLE LETTER. To show the great wrong that is being done the South by the teaching of the Re publican party exponents, 1 append the Knowing. The advertisement was clipped from a newspaper and posted at the top of the epistle: Peerless Homes! Virgin Soil! Moderate Climate. 4t Over 100.000 acres of good, rich agricultural lands, bottom and uplauds, timber lauda, fruit lands, stock-raising lands. LOW PEICE3! TKRMS EAST! THOMAS ESSEX. Land Commissioner, 12-ly LITTLE RUCK, ARK. 'Peerlewi Homes" indeed from which the Inmates are liable at any hour of the dny or nitht, to be dragged aud mercilessly butchered, unless thev are Democrat unless they believe in a white mau' government" tin less they will bow down and won-hip the god which the Bouthern fiends have fet up 1 Oh, Thomas Essex. Land Commissioner; you may advertise in Northern papers much aa you please: you may talk to us of your "peerless nomes," virgin soil," "moderate climate," etc.. but we know all about It; we know all about the barbarity, the cruelty, th- oppression the neiidUhnens, the horrid, awful deeds of your Southern devils deeds at which a savage would blush and hide bis head in shame and horror. We know that toe whole South is a hell of despotic cruelty, and we believe that the tokens of your peerless homes will be few, 11 any, from the North, or the East or the West People who eek home are pretty likely to seek them in a free c-untrv, where they ran be free to worship Uod according to the dictates of thjir own consciences aud free to speak or vote as thev please. For one. I would not accept as a gift your million acres of land to be obliged to rvtide there. The Southern people have got a big lesson to learn, aud the sooner they et themselves right down to the buslnei of learning it the belter it will be lor them The leson is this; The Kouth must and shall be as free for all as the rest of the Union Is. The North, the East and the West are determined upon this, and the Houth had bet ter take warning in time aud behave itself It has been a shame and disgrace to civilization long enongh, and their accursed deeds can not and will not be endured louger. Go In for freedom for all. Crush out your lead ing villains, like wade Hampton, Boh Toombs, etc Make the houth tree tree as is the north the East and the Wert then such advertisements as your s will be gladly. Joyously welcomed aud responded to. and the "bunny gouth" may then exoect confidently a great tide of immucratlon. but until then, never. And beeide, unless your own people make the South free, the rest of the Union will do it for you. America must and shall be free. Falmouth, Me., December 7, 1830. TBK ACTHOE8 OF SUCH LETTERS. There are no two Hepublicans who can

look each other squarely in the face while talking of the atrocities of the South. The fellow who wrote the letter was no doubt candid, but he had scrise enough to withhold his name. The Governor tells me, and all the State officers, that they receive such every day. The wretched fools who write them are entitled to the deepest rty. coxcxrsiox. The widespread ignorance at the North concerning the social condition here is deplored by this people. It is a hurtful slander, in that it stops a tide of immigration that the great natural resources of the coun try would otherwise attract. But for the Republican avarice for political spoil, time would be allowed to heal the wounds and bitterness engendered by the war. Luthes Bexsox.

CAPITAL A'ECDOTKS. Tales of Ye Olden Time in Washington City. Washington Letter. "Variety Is the ppice of life." Be pleased to take scats, gentlemen, I cm going to tell some true stories. I promise not to bore you. Lemonoski came to this country many years ago, and surceeded in obtaining a clerkship in the Postotllce Department According to his account of himself he had been a soldier under the great Napoleon. Nothing pleased him better than to meet with an opportunity of reciting his military exploits. It is hardly necessary to say that some of them were marvelous and always excited a smile of incredulity. At length" a fellow-clerk said to him: "Lemonotki, I have often heard you light over your old battles; now let me give you my sad'military experience. I was a soldier in the Black Hawk War. In the very first engagement I saw three stalwart Indians coming in full speed after my scalp. I was armed with an old-fashioned double-barreled shot-gun. I let her loose upon the two that were in the lead, and killed them as dead as Julius Casar. The third came rushing upon me with his bloody tomahawk raised above his head, and what do you suppose happpned then?" '"You kill- d him, of course." "Not exactly," quietly replied the Black Hawk warrior; "he killed me." A roar of laughter was raised among the bystanders, and poor Lemonoski s yarns were knocked clear out of him. General Jackson, about the year 1332, gave Jimmie Maher the appointment of public gardener in Washington. Salary $1,500 and trimmings. The trimmings, perhaps, amounted ta a much larger sum. To keep the public grounds in proper order were the duties to be performed. Jimmie, when I made Iiis acquaintance, knew everybody from Henry Clay down to Kphraim Frost the colored hack-driver. He was a warm hearted, liberal Irishman. He never took a drink, save when he was thirsty, and then he invited all the bystanders to join him. He prided himself on his adherence to what he called "Dimcoratic" principles. Some hungry Whigs in 1841 wanted his place, and Jimmie, for a little while, was very uneasy. One morning he met General Harrison, in the public grounds, and taking off his hat, he thus addressed him: "I presume this is Gineral Harrison, Prizident of the United States." Receiving an affirmative answer, he continued: "My name is Maher; I am poohlic gardener." "Well, Mr. Maher, I like the appearance of these grounds; they look in much better condition than they did when I was a Senator." "Och, its me trade; was fotched up to it; but, may it plize your honor, it's rumored about here thtt I'm tobe disniised." "Dismissed for what?" "Because I was a friend to Mr. Van Buren." "No, Mr. Maher, nobody is authorized to say that you will be dismissed on that account" '"A thousand thanks to your excellency. You see I was acquainted'witu Mr. Van Buren. He always treated me like a gentleman, and I 'as for him; have no doubt after we get a little better acquainted I shall be for you." Harrison smiled, end have assured him that he had no idea of turning him out Whereupon Jimmie broke down to the place where he had some hands at work and gave them a report of his interview. He closed it with this grand exclamation: "liy jove, boys, Prizident Harrison is a rale Gineral Jack son of a fellow." About three weeks after the inauguration Of General Harrison a well-dressed young man of some thirty summers walked into one of the hotels of this city with a fiddle on his arm and said: "Gentlemen (all eyes were at once turned upon him), i have come here, like thousands of others, to see what I could see and get what I could get: but I have been disappointed in everything. I have got no office, got out of money, and got many miles to retrace. I am too honest to steal, too proud to beg, and I concluded to come in here to-day and make a little in an honest way." Suiting the action to the word, he "began to play the fiddle. This comical scene afforded amusement to the persons there assembled. They asked him how much money it would take to carry him home. He said $40. In less than ten minutes that amount was raised for him. Sitting down and counting over his money, he found that they had given him f 13. "By George." said he, "here's a surplus of S3. Come in, gentlemen, all of you, and take something to drink." I never saw nor heard of him afterward. I have regretted that I did not learn his name and keep the hang of him. The chances are that he has since filled some high political position. Lincoln's Good Sense. Abraham Lincoln is on record, in his peculiar way, on the system of competitive examinations. The colored troops raised directly by the General Government during the war were officered through competitive examinations, and as was generally admitted were remarkably well ofllcered too. But it would occasionally happen that a young college student, by committing Casey s tactics, and by shying out his mathematical and historical knowledge to p od advantage, would get a Captaincy or a Majority before he could shoulder arms and march u company out to the parade ground. And often a man peculiarly fitted to command, with a sjecial relish for fighting and perfect in the maneuvering cf a regiment or brigade, but unfamiliar with the characters of ancient history and ignorant af logarithms, would fail of securing a Second Lieutenancy. One of the latter class once, in his perplexity, applied to Mr. Lincoln, and that man of wonderful discernment and practical sense sent him to Secretary Stanton with this note: "I desire that Mr. should be appointed to the Colonelcy of a colored regiment although he may not knew the exact shade of Julius Casar'a hair." Scarltt Scourge. A Pittsburg special, dated Christmas Eve, says: "This will be a sad and mournful Christmas for the little town of Houtzdale, Clearfield County, in this-State. The Angel of Death is now holding high carnival there. That fearful scourge, scarlet fever, is rapidly thinning and desolating every household in the place. Eighten children died yesterday from this terrible disease, and this morning many new cases are reported. It is but a few days since the first case was made known, and already thirty deaths have resulted from the fatal fever. "Physicians havt been summoned from all the neighboring towns, as the few doctors here were all overworked, and could not possibly attend to all the demands made upon them. There is scarcely a family in the town that is not plunged into grief at the untimely death of their children. Mourning and grief are everywhere visible. Heretofore the health of the town has been excellent, and the doctors are at a loss to account for 1 the fearful ravages of the dread disease." The common punishment in a Washington public school has been confinement in the boiler room, where the temperature is 110. One little girl was made seriously ill.

CIIABLES P. CLINCH.

His Thirty-Eight Years in the "evf York Custom House. rviving Thirteen Administrations Re tirement From Offlce When Near Kighty Mrs. A. T. Stewart's On? Surviving Brother. INew York Time, December IS. Charles Powell Clinch, the only surviving brotherof Mrs. Alexander T. Stewart, and the only Assistant Collector of the Port that New York City ever had, slied at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, at his late residence, No. 3 East Thirty-fourth street. He was out riding the previous afternoon, and in the evening entertained his sister at tea. When she left him he was apparently in his usual health. At 9 o'clock he was taken with convulsions arising from an attack of gout to which ho had long been a sufferer in the stomach, and he never, rallied. He was born at No. 67 Pine street, in this city October 20, 1797, and was, subsequently, in his eighty-fourth year. His father, James Clinch, was a wealthy ship-chandler, who by his first wife had four children, viz: James, Charles P., Maria, who never married, and Carnelia, the widow of the great dry goods millionaire, Mr. Clinch was left independently well off by his father's death, and did not engage in active business during his young days except for a short period, when he held a subordinate position in the City Bank. - He was through life a pronounced Democrat, and at the time spoken of and afterward took an active interest in politics. He was elected to the Legislature in 1834, 1S35. and 183,erving with such men as William M. Marcy, Silas Wright, and Freston King. Previous to this he had acted for a while as Citv Editor of the Aurora, one of the early New York newspapers, then published in Wall street, and during his time he contributed anonymously a series of political articles to that paper, exposidg and upsetting the plans of the Whigs, which attracted a great deal of attention. In 1840 he was a iSachem in Tanimanv Hall. A large part of Mr. Clinch's inheritance was invested in insurance stock, which were rendered valueless by the great fare of 1S35. and it was in consequence of this misfortune that he accepted a josition in the Custom House. He was appointed an Inspector of Customs by Collector Jesse lloyt, on March 29, 1838, Martin Van Buren beine then President On April 23, 130, Collector Hoyt promoted him to a Deputy Collectorship, which he held until IN), when Collector Heman J. Kedlield made him a special Deputy, with power to act in the Collector's absence. On March 17, lWi'l, Collector Hiram Barney created for him the fosition of Assistant Collector, from which ie resigned on November G, 1S7G, to take elfect November CO of that year. No one has since been appointed to that place. From November 13, 1SG5, to May IG, 1SGG, he filled the office of Collector, rendered vacant by the suicide of President Kio. His intimate friend, John Van Buren, sought to have him formally appointed Collector, but he refused to accept it on the ground that he would be compelled to forfeit his independence. When he resigned, his old associates presented him with an album containing all their portraits, which cost $300, and an address in which they styled him the Nestor of the United States customs service. Mr. Clinch thus held continuous office in the Custom House for over thirty-eight years, under no fewer than thirteen Administrations of different politics. His resignation was brought about through the entreaties of his sister after the death of her husband, which occurred in April, 1S76. She made him a present of the house in which he died, and furnished it for him. He had previously resided at Stapleton, Staten Island, where at his death lie still owned a handsome residence and grounds. Since that time he has taken no active part in politics or business. He was twice luarried. His last wife died about ten years ago. He leaves an adopted daughter, who is Unmarried. Mr. Clinch was looked upon as possessing more knowledge on the subject of American customs, revenue and navigation laws than any other living man, and his judgment was always trusted implicitly by his associ ates in office. This fact and his sterling in tegrity made his retention a necessity under successive administrations, aitnougti ms bluntnesa and independence of character were such as would have, over and over again, caused the speedy removal of a less valuable servant Many anecdotes are told by his old colleagues illustrative of this and other of his distinguishing traits. Special Treasury Agent Jayne once informed him that he was about to take proceedings against his brother, now dead, for violation of the revenue laws. The old gentleraan, without moving a muscle, responded: "Well, sir, if he is guilty, let him be punished like anyone else." When the news of Lee's surrender was received in this city, Mr. Clinch seized an American flag, and, rushing into the rotunda, sang "The Star Spangled Banner" from beginning to end. His tastes were always of a marked literary character, and he was a devoted friend of art and the drama. Among his intimate friends were Fitz Greene Halleck, the poet; the late James Gordon Bennett, Thurlow Weed, Miss Stebbins, the sculptress, and many others similarly distinguished. He himself wasa poetof no mean ability, andl copies of a volume of scattered pieces which he once published have sold at auction as high as $25. He was the author of three dramas, one of which, entitled "The First of May In New York," was performed with success on the boards of the old Broadway Theater. He also contributed largely to the press. There were not many better Shakfjpearean scholars in the United States than lie. He knerv the great poet's works by heart almost from end to end, and took pleasure in reciting them bv the hour on the slightest provocation. In addition to his ether accomplishments, he was an excellent extemporaneous speaker and a first-rate amateur actor. The late Alexander T. Stewart admired him heartily, and was during his life his warm friend. His funeral will take place on Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock, from the Church of the Iucarnation. His remains will be taken to Stapleton and buried beside those of his second wife in the Moravian Cemetery there. A meeting of heads of Departments was held in the Collector's room in the Custom House yesterday afternoon to take suitable action respecting Mr. Clinch's death. Collector Merritt presided, and in stating the object of the gathering spoke of him as one of the beet officers ever apjwinted, to a po sition nere, ana one who, without regard to personal or plitical associations, com manded the confidence and regard not only of his associates, but also of the business community whose duties brought them in contact with him." On motion of General Palmer, a Committee on Resolutions, con sisting of the mover, Deputy Collector V yacoop, Chief of the Correspondence Bureau Trelor, Naval Officer Burt, and Mr. Jseibuhr, an old Custom House broker, was appointed to draft appropriate resolutions. After they had done so, eulogistic speeches were made by General Palmer, Deputy Collector Briggs and Deputy Collector Wyncoop. The last named, who was Mr. Clinch's associate for many years, spoke of him as a very kindbeaMcd man, who was always ready to do another a service and to forget anything unpleasant that might have occurred in his intercourse with his fellows; as a very thorough man, who for years after his first appointment to office made a special study of the laws appertaining to it; as a very precise man, particularly in the use of language, always saying exactly what he meant and could prove, and, as a sturdily honest and fearless man, ever maintaining firmly hia

convictions of what was right and Jost, These, Mr. Wyncoop said, were the saiient foints of Mr. Clinch's character as he knew im. The resolutions were unanimously adopted. As many of the Custom House officers as can do so will attend the funeral.

Longevity Notes. Mrs. Lacey, a widow of Savannah. Ga., who is over ninety years of age, is cutting another set of teeth. James Clephane, aged ninety, who lives in Washington, read proof with Sir Walter Scott on "Waverly." Mrs. L. W. Boggs, the granddaughter of Daniel Boone, died near Dry Creek, Cal., on Thursday, aged ninety-seven. At a colored wedding in Barnesville, Ga., the groom was 110, and the bride had just passed her fortieth birthday. The oldest Democrat in the United States is John Burdett, of South Carolina, who voted for Hancock, and is 105 years of age. The oldest voter in Kane County, Illinois, was Daniel Dorsett, who was buried on the 21st ult, just as he had closed a century of me. John Bodette is the pride of Kalamazoo, Mich. Although 103 vears of age, he is full of vitality, dances like a boy, and takes twelve mile walks. Mrs. Hawkins, aged ICS, and Jennie Brad ley, aged 101, still live at Charlotte, N. C, do their own housework, and read without the aid of glasses. After living without enemies for ninetytwo years, William Toney was shot and killed by Charles Allen, a negro, at Milledgeville, Ind., for an imaginary wrong. Eli Thorry steered the first canal boat which went East in 1825 on the Erie. He died in Canajoharie, N. Y., recently, and had been supported by the town for forty years. As soon as George Evans, of Nashville, Tenn.. reaches Iiis one hundredth year, he proposes to take a helpmeet He is now ninety-eight years of age, and says he has never courted a woman in his life. The first white child born in what is now the city of Cincinnati, was Mrs. Nancy Heath, who recently died in Pittsfield, 111., aged ninety years. She also taught the first school in Pittsfield. For 105 years Melohiah, a Choctaw Princess, had been addicted to the inordinate use of tobacco. She died recently at Hoyt City, in the Indian Territory, at the age of 114 years. John Koehl, of Cincinnati, is ninety-six years of age, is still perfectly sound and well, and weighs 200 pounds. Ilia progeny consists of ten children, twelve grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren. Sent to jail for sixty days for vagrancy at the age of ninety-five years, is the experienc of David Brady, of Toronto, Canada. He was at St. Helena during the period of Napoleon's imprisonment there. At Patchogue, L. I., David Wicks passed quietly away, aged ninety-eight years. His name is a household word among the villagers for his many deeds of kindness during a residence of more than half a cent- j ury. The eon that was born to an old man in Athens, Ga., at the age of ninety-two, is of ordinary size and strength, but is entirely destitute of teeth, although he is now a young man. His father died recently at the age of 112. Another Good Hoy. Detroit Free Itcss. A Detroit grocer was the other dav hungrily waiting for his clerk to return from dinner and give him a chance at his own noonday meal, when a bov came into the store with a basket in his hand, and said: I seed a boygrab up this 'ere basket from the door and run, and I run after him and made him give it cp." "My lad, you are an honest boy." "Yes, sir." "And you look like a good boy." "Yes, sir." "And good boys should always be en couraged. In a box in the back room there are eight dozen eggs. You may take them home to your mother and keep the basket." The grocer had been saving those eggs for aays and weeks to reward some one. In re warding a good boy he also got eight dozen bad eggs carried out of the neighborhood free of cost, and he chuckled a little chuck as he walked homeward. The afternoon waned, night came and went, and once more the grocer went to his dinner. When he returned he was picking his teeth and wearing a complacent smile. His eye caught a basket of eight dozen eggs as he entered the store, and he queried: "Been buying some eggsr 'Yes; got hold of those from a farmer's boy," replied the clerk. "A lame boy with a blue cap on"' "Yes." "Two front teeth out?" "Yes." The grocer sat down and examined the eggs, lhe shells had been washed clean, but they were the same eggs that good boy had lugged home the day before. Payment ot Xepnty Blarabaln. Special to the Cincinnati ComiaerciaLl Wa6HI-oton, Dec. 25. There is a project on foot among the Republicans to call up, immediately after the reassembling of Congress, the question of the payment of United States Deputy Marshals for their services during the past several years, and to ask for an appropriation for their claims. Iiis asserted by those who favor such action that the amount necessary to cover existing deficiencies will not exceed half a million of dollars, and that as an act of simple justice the money should have been appropriated long ago, and paid to those who rendered the services. The present is regarded as a favorable time ior pressing these claims, as the Democrats are less likelv to maintain anv factious oppo sition, owing to their desire to prevent an eitra session, and to accomplish legislation while they have a majority. It is claimed that there are several Democrats in the House who will consent to the appropriation rather than give the Republicans any excuse for delaying legislation, aud thus force an extra session. Any father who poos out and puts tar on top of his front gate after dark must be lost to all sense of humanity. Not so the one who buys a bottle of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup for his family. Consumption Cure. In changeable climates like ours, every one should remember that Hall's Balsam for the lungs has proven itself to be a sure cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis and all Lung DLseaKes, and for a common cough or cold we guarantee every bottle. It has saved the life of many, even after all hope hid tied. Many of our most intelligent families would as soon be without woolen clothing in winter an not to hare Hall's Balsam always on hand, for it never fails to immediately relieve all soreness of throat and lungs. A single doe taken at bed time will gently warm the blood, cause refreshing slumber, aud by morning an ordinary cough or cold will be gone. Ask your druggist and your friends concerning the merits of Hall's Balsam. Price for large bottle. 1. Re member we keep thlo excellent remedy 0.1 gale at our drug store iu Indianapolis, and do mwt cordially recommend It to our customers and all good people. Browning fc moan, wholesale agents. Health ia Wealth. It seems strange that any one will suffer from the man v der&ncements brought on bv an imnure state of the blood, when ScovfiTs Blood and Liver Svtuo will restore perfect health and physical organization. It is, indeed, a strengthening syrup, pleasant to take, and has proven lutelf to be the best blood purifier ever discovered, effectually curing Scrofula, Syphilitic disorders, weakness of the Kidneys, all nervous aisoraers ana achinty. It corrects Indigestion. It makes the old feel young, the young feel gay, and will invariably drive out of the svstem the many ills that human fieoh and blood are heir to. : Price of large bottles with full directions, fl. . A single bottle will prove to you its merits as a health renewer, for it acts like a charm, especially when the complaint Uof an exhaustive nature, having a teudency to lessen the natural vigor of the brain, and nervous svstem. Remember we keep this excellent Blood and IJver RvruD for sale at our drug store iu Indian apolis, and do most cordially recommend it to our customers ana au goou peopie. .Drowning a Bioan, wholesale agenu.

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