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THE BATESVILLE GUARD. A. DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL. PUBLISHED EVEEY WEDNESDAY, BY FRANK D. DENTON. TERMS: •Mcegy.eaoyear, iaadvaao. Bitt Vm copy, .lx month, •• 1 J* Club Ban.—Viva copies. pa 00. Ten copies MomußiU getter up of olab. oil 00. Court Directory. THIRD JUDICAL DISTRICT. H. H. Powell, Judge, Melbourne, Ark. Chablis Coffin, Prosecunng-Attorney Waliut Ridge, Ark. Jackson, first Monday in March and Septem ber. Lawrence, fourth Monday in March and Sep tember. Sharp, second Monday In February and August. Fulton, fifth Monday after the fourth Mon* day in March and September. Baxter, ninth Monday after the fourth Mon day in March and September. Izard, eleventh Monday after the fourth Monday in March and September. Stone, thirteenth Monday after the fourth Monday in March and September. Independence, second Monday in January and July. COUNTY COURT of Independence County, meets first Mon days in January, April, July and October. PROBATE COURT of Independence County, meets first Mondays in February, May, August, aud November. JAMES W. BUTLER, ROBERT NEILL. BUTLER & NEILL, LAWYERS, BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS. Will practice in the counties of Independ ence, Jackson, Lawrence, Sharp, Fulton. Izard and Stone; and also in the Supreme and Federal Courts at Little Rock.- Jun 1 ly W. A. BF.VENS, ATTORNEY AT LAW BATESVILLE, - - ARK. SAM’L PEETt, A-ttomoy X««wv, BATESVILLE, ARK. Will practice in the Court of the Third Ju dicial Circuit. Collections promptly attended to. Office at Court-house. ELISHA BAXTER, Attorney Law, BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS. Will practice in the Courts of the Third Ju dicial District, and give special attention to matters in bankruptcy. nov3 ly J. C. YANCEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW BATESVILLE, ARK. Will practice in the Courts of the Third Ju dicial District, and also in the Supreme and Federal Courts at Little Rock. Special at ten tion given to criminal business. 9^ Office on Broad Street, near Court house. 39y JOHN J. BARBELL, Attorney at Law, BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS. Will practice in the Circuit Courts of Inde pendence, Jackson, Sharp, Lawrence, and Izard Counties: also in the Federal Courts at Little Rock. Claims will meet with prompt attention. Office in Court house, first door left hand side, down stairs. 4 6m H. H. WiYSEL, House Builder, CONTRACTOR, Etc.,. BATESVILLE, • ' • ARK. Charges moderate and reasonable. Plane and prices furnished on application. TTByPADGETT; General Collection, TaiPajini AND Land Agency for N. E. Arkansas. Office in Court-house, first room on left hand side. BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS, ALL SOLDIERS - Widows and Orphans OF SOLDIERS Who were in military service of the United States, that will call on me nt my Law Office can obtain valuable information, as under re cent acts of Congress there are thousands who are entitled to Pensions, Bounties, and other claims, that can be obtained with but very little trouble and expense. Very respectfully, _ J. C. YANCEY. TL S. MAIL-SMITH LINE. Newport and Upper White River Packets ALBERTA, - Smith, Master. WINNIE, - Lecompt, Master, Que of the above boats will leave Batesville for Newport on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Returning, leaves Newport Tues days, Thursdays and Saturday*. Mark and consign your shipments care of Smith Line of boats. Freight consigned to me will be handled here without dray age or commission. Mr. Theo. Albert is our agent in charge of Warehouse, and will give through bill ladings for cotton and produce on its arrival here free of storage and commission. ALBERT B. SMITH. BatesviUe, Ark., March 24,1879. INDEPENDENT UNE? Begular Newport, Bateeville and Upper White River Packet, the new and light-draught ■teamer WW3KXTB WATUXt, Chae. B. Woodbubt, Master. A. H. Gobbi. Clerk. Through bins of lading given to any point, and rates guaranteed as cheap as the cheapest. Mr. Chas. T. Arnett is agent for the White Water, with headquarters at our warehouse la Bntesville. where he can always be found, and will give through bills of lading for cotton eg produce. All goods, cotton, etc., handled, reShippedoi stored free of charge. For rapid transit or cheap rates, consign *cur freight la ears of steamer White WaaaK. Batesville Guard. VOL. V. TINWARE! TINWARE! For bargains in Tinware, go to Mrs. Baker's Store on Main Street. Notice some of her prices below: 12 gallon lard can .. $1 it 10 gallon lard can U 8 gallon lard can > M 5 gallon lard can * 55 10 quart covered buckets 43 8 quart covered buckets 35. • quart covered buckets 28 , 4 quart covered buckets 25 10 quart dish-pans 40 12 “ “ 50 16 “ “ 55 X gallon coal-oil cans «.» 20 1 “ " •• 27 2 " " M 45 M gallon cup 13 Milk-strainers 15 Stove-pipe, per Joint 20 Elbows 25c. to 50 I also keep extra heavy tinware (block tin). which I offer at correspondingly low prices. Call and see for yourselves. F. J. BAKER, Mata Street. NEWTON M. ALEXANDER FTLAOTICA.IJ Watchmaker, Jeweler ▲ND DEALER IN Watches, Jewelry, Clocks, Notions, King’s Spectacles, Toys, Ztc, BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS. All work left at hU store nr sent by mail, boat or express, will be promptly attended to at reasonable prices. All work guaran teed. Remember the New Jewelry Store, opposite the Court-house. 37 A.T 0 ANNAN’S, First door below Court-house, you enn ajLav*\ find the BEST IHD FRESHEST Ulm GOODS Family and fancy groceries ami CONFECTIONERIES, FRESH BREAD, CANpiES^ CAKES, NUTS, CANNED GOODS GROCERIES, KTr.» WJC/ 4 Goods pure, fresh and full weight. GUruuna a call and • guru fleet* perfect and entire satis faction. Rememl»er the plnce*-tl!Wt doorb<- ’ low the Court-house. JOHN CANN AN- A Miming Van Heard From. Thirty-one years ago William W. W. Chambers left his young wife in Syra cuse, N. Y., suddenly an<F without np tfcC/ and it wm supposed went toCkli -fonila. having manifested syipptom^ of the gold fever. Nothing was ever heard from him directly. Uj>on the affirma tion that a man answering hia <tem-rip>' tion died of ship fever crossing the Isthmus of Panama in 1864. Mr-Cage, of New York, his brother-in-law, sued the British Commercial Life Insuranca Company to recover on a policy of f U),- 000 which he held on Chambers' life. The jury were not satisfied with the proof of death and found for defendant. Mrs. Chambers married Mr. Travis, of Detroit, some years ago. Mayor Hen dricks, of Syracuse, has just received a letter from Bairndale, Australia, an nouncing the death of Chambers, and that he nas left an estate to be dis posed of. The Anta of Carthagenia. On the mountains west of the village of Middleburg, Schoharie County, N. Y., is a plot of from one thousand to two thousand acres known' as Cartha genia, which is mostly rock, but with some earth upon it. The dirt is carried thither by ants and built into mounds, many of them five or six feet high. The ants seem to be of two or more varieties. Some are of the large black' kind, while others are partly of a ma roon red and black color. The view from this plot in summer is of remarks- * ble extent and beauty. The surround ings are silent of animal life, and so far removed from the active world-that any visitor to this strange elevation will be repaid for the labor of climbing up the Sed steeps to obtain it Simms de es this mountain in one of his most charming chapters.— Cobleskill IN.- K) Herali. ■ . " • . —The Girl is at the Gate. A young Man is coming down the Lane. The Girl’s papa is. Sitting ton tha FriSk Porch. He is very Old. He has Raised a Family of Eleven children. What js the Poor old Man Thinking aboul,aniT why Does he Gaze so Intently at his BigKt , Boot? Maybe he is Thinking about Raising the Young Man who 3 Coming down the Lane.—Trib une Primer. —Mr. A»hmead*lfartle^ls, acclnfiJL to Buckle, one man. in thirty thousand,,. for that, according^ lifts, is the pjnpdr^ tion which men marrying women' end enough to be their grandmothers bqar to the population. DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF INDEPENDENCE COUNTY AND NONTH ARKANSAS. BATESVILLE, INDEPENDENCE CO.. ARK., JANUARY 11, 1882. * CURRENT TOPICS. ' 1335X1 "liT THE NEWS IN BRIEF ’ v I - * 'RfcbUctidw of public debt during Deoelnbcr I art, tn,tWW,72B. ' Gen. Brewster has assumed charge of the Department of Justice. Jay Gould . has assumed thePre*- dency of the Wabash Road, vice Solon Hum phry g, .resigned, , It is authoritatively stated that Hon. John C. New will be sent to succeed Foster at St. Petersburg* Tta Havana Lattery managers have been swindled out of nearly $300,000 by clev erly forged telegraphic dispatches. The business of New York fortlj, year, as exhibited by the returns of the Clearing-house, reached the unprecedented total of $40,400,000,000. - q s South Carolina planters are ap peebensive that the colored exodus now taking pises from that State will cause the loss of the cotton crop. Tut Grand Society of Railways, of Russia, is Insolvent. The misappropriation of 25,000,000 rubles of Government money on the Nicolae line is announced. The President will send a special menage to Congress pointing out the neces sity for immediate legislation looking to the suppression of small-pox. The Secretary of the Interior has in structed Indian Agents that they have pow ar to put (white) int Aden off the reserva tioas, and may call on the military to assist them. Jambs Gordon Bennett has gone to St. Petersburg to confer with the Czar in regard to a polar expedition on a new plan, in which the base of operations will be at the mouth of the Leas. Uwurr the Presidency of Thomas Davis, a company has been Organized la Boston to bund steamships which are ex pected to cross the Atlantic in less than a week. Nearly $2,000,000 stock has been taken. Thbrb is a prospect of a general strike by the puddlen in the various rolling mills In the middle district Os Pennsylvania, extending along tbe Susquehanna River for nearly fifty miles, unless their employers advance their Wages. Sknor Rombro has been appointed by the Mexican Government ns a special en voy, charged with power to negotiate a treaty of commercial reciprocity with the United States. Senor Romero has been re 'keatedly Secretary aflhs Yretaury In Mcxi io, and ho ba* MM ma* Jean trt this "eKuntry as Mexican Minister. Heisapro greseive man. A COmmittbb appointed by Secretary Folger, baMntod by thirteen gentlemen from tbe Treasury Department, hate begun to count the money In the United State* Sub- Treaaury at New York City, preparatory to action of the newly appointed Treasurer taking possession of tbe office. The com mlttee wlilh^u.to copot about 800 ton* of -Ailrpr, amopnung to show $86,000,000. Testimony in the following contested 1 eSMtlon o*MS-im*twea *O**ccd and Kent to the printer by the Chairman of the House Committee eo EiMMona: (MttoH Vs. Hern don, , Strabach v*. JlerberJ, Mabsoa ve. ■Wales, Smith t».libelleyrßMfeZva. Finley, -Aadsoon v*. Reed, Buchanan vs. Meaning, IXyMb vs. Chalmers, Lee vs. Richardson, Mackay ys. O'Connor and s te>*l’ v*. Till-- IT is Believed" that the present Con gtsaa wMpay more attention to war claims than the last. There are many which may be termed legitimate war claim*, North and South, now before the Committee, a num ber of which were pending before the last BOU previous Congress**. Among these la Abe-Wnmisylvsnla war clalfh; known as the border claim, in which Is Involved some H, 000,060. Thi* 1* for damage* done and yixoperty takes by the Union and Confeder ate troop* in the Gettysburg campaign, dur ing Lee’s raid in Pennsylvania. Tub diplomatic scandal in Washing ton last winter which resulted in the recall of certain sttachea frony Fnnte, Spain and Brazil, is revived by the reappearance of the disgraced young men. They were ex peHfilLfXom tha McUopolltau Club, com posed of the elite of West End society, and further, they were reported to Secretary Blaine, who made the matter tho subject of diplomatic corroapondonce nnd requested tbe recall of the offenders. This was done, but a change of Administration ha* brought these “scions of noble families’’ back with th* reappointment of tbelr respective coun tries. ♦ The Guiteau^rial does not draw so well as heretofore. Tbe prlsloner seems to hwobfe^tan^d, and tbe court-room is not the Inspiriting scene it was. Counsel for, defense ask .for more time, and another chance on direct examination. Tbe prose cution object to anv reopening of tbe case, expecting to push it to an early conclusion. Guiteau’s opening speech on the 3d Is char acteristic: “I had s very happy New Year yesterday, and hope everybody else did. I had lon of visitors, high-toned, middle ' tonbd Ad low-toned. TJiat take* them all in, I believe. They expressed their opin ions freely, and none of them want me hfo>g. They afi, withnuf dtasent, expressed th* ojinten that Uhall bejseqnit*d. ’ ’ Tbrsb Osk^osa (Iowa) lads select ed as a target for rifle practice a magazine by tty AmStfcdh IfoWder Company.' Kite hundred keg* vfero esploded with ter rific nolte and dire consequences. The boys .were hurled several hundred yards from the magazin* and all instantly killed, being' burned and mutilated klhlMt b^ybhu recog nition. their bodies presenting a sickening tight. A la*gtauntb*r of bowses were bad ly wrecked, end many persons InjurdLMp Bylnfi glstt snd wood. Nearly *ll the bu*l nes* houfiMiMMdtfi Aerhd*taaged,ibaw-1 window* being smashed In and the good* scattered about In confusion. The bpdy of ■JAh-PWipMvas found fifty yards dMNB thg Illi, GoUnng nearly all gone, back por- I. tion otihe head espied »way.jmd the body, yards away, and fearfully torn. Gerald Jofob was found In the creek 160 yards away, with tbe head almost completely ton*. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The investigation into the affairs of the World Mutual Relief Association, of Eebanon, P*o show* that during its exist ence of ten months it tasued policies repre senting about $18,000,000, and the officers divided $40,000 among themselves. The business recently has been confined almost exclusively to Western States. The Missouri River closed at Sioux Glty Dec. 29th. Ice gorged around the pile bridge of the Omaha road, and swept away three hundred feet of the structure. An express messenger crossed on the Ice. Dr. S. R. Patton, who mysteriously disappeared from Ripon, Wis., leaving the Impression that he bad drowned himself in Green Lake, has been found at Mechanics ville, Md., doing a thriving business under the name of Harmon. The girl with whom be I* supposed to have eloped Is.aaid to be In Canada. Tbe wife whom Patton deserted Is still in Ripon with her family 1 of small children. She recently sold her home •tead, which was quite heavily Incumbered It t>e time of her husband’s departure. A committee of telegraph operators have called a convention of tbe brotherhood ■ at Pittsburgh, Pa.,, on the first Monday in March, to form an international organi zation. In Sing Sing prison, New York, the other morning, Daniel Cash was killed by Angelo Cordeta. Not a word was spoken, and tbe cause of the crime is a mystery. A saloon kept by two Germans at Palestine, Kosciusko County, Ind., was blown up by dynamite by unknown persons. ’ This is the second building lost by these men in this way within the past three months. William Howard, aged 13, hanged himself In a woodshed at Buffalo, N. Y. He was an orphan and adopted son of Lawrence Moore. The boy had complained that his adoptedparent* ill-treated him and this is believeil to have been the cause of tbe sui cide. W. E. Graham, who killed, robbed and burned Philip Egley, at Venango, Ells worth County, Kans., on the night of the 2Stb, was hanged by a mob in front of the 'Court-house Jan. 2. W. C. Roee would have net the same fate, but was taken from the Jail and secured by the Sheriff during the excitement. Georoe W. Shoemaker, ex-Chief of Police of Terre Haute, Ind., commltte.l sui cide at tbe Spencer House, Indianapolis, by taking morphine. P. N. Kimball, proprie tor of tbe Kimball House at Maquoketa, lowa, ended bis existence on account of business reversee. The Vine Street Opera-house, Cincin nati, baa been destroyed by fire. Petek We vers, of Milwaukee, trav eling for a German newspaper, was thrown from his carriage at Whitewater, Wis., re ceiving injuries from which he died. E. D. Hopkins, an ex-minister, who ha* figured In the criminal court* of Ver mont for five vears past as an alleged de faulting Insurance agent, was convicted of larceny. Two convictions for forgeries were already standing against him. and the ac cumulation has driven him into the most vio lent insanity. J. Winslow, Jones & Co., packing firm doing business in Portland, Me., and owning fifteen com factories, five lobster factories, and fourteen lobster and salmon factories in the provinces, have tailed for $182,000. The explosion of a locomotive boiler on the Savannah, Florida A Western liail wav caused tbe death at an engineer nnd fireman. W. T. Brock, a prominent attorney of Florence, Ala., was shot to death by J. Edgar Byrd, a saloon-keeper. Two aged brothers, named Rose, starved to death in a room in the Arcade building in Buffalo, refusing all offers of aid. They were the architects of the bulld iag 1* wblcb they perished. Twelve Jews were killed and sixty throe wounded In tbe recent riot* at War saw. A Vienna cablegram states that in an encounter between six gendarmes and ■ixty Krivosdans, four of tbe former were killed nnd horribly mutilated. N. M. IxiwßY, a leading member of the West Virginia Legislature, became in volved In a quarrel with a colored servant In a Washington hotel, and the attendant knocked him down. The gentleman from Virginia, after recovering himself, asked satisfaction from tbe proprietors of the ho tel, and one or two of hi* friends took part In the demand. The result was a general melee, in which the legislator came out much worsted, bleeding and scarred. The reeant tragedy in Asidand, Ky., having excited Intense Indignation and threat* of lynching, the iteamer Mountain Girl was chartered to convey the prisoners from Catlettsburg to Maysville. While making steam, the train from Ashland rolled In with about 500 determined regula tors on board. The Sheriff, with a guard of ten men, by an adroit movement took the prisoners from the Jail to the wharf. A* soon as the crowd beheld tbe prisoners they started dowa the bank with loud yell* of In dfgnatlon, gathering 'arms and missiles ready for an assault. The UmM, seeing the mob descending, boarded the ferryboat with bls party and turned her down-stream. Tbe mob took possession of the Mountain Girl and commenced a determined chase. The steamer not yet having sufficient pres sure, soon foil behind, but subsequently sbe got in shape and commenced gain ing rapidly on the slow-going ferry, and in a abort time approached so closely that a capture seemed imminent; but fortunately tbe Mountain Boy, a faster boat, appeared on tbe acene on her regular trip up from Ashland to Louisa. She was hsiled by tbe Sheriff, pressed into service, and the party rapidly transferred to ber. When the transfer bad been successfully msde, the Girl, black with an excited, en raged and howling mob, appeared in eight, <and the exciting chase was resumed; but tbe Boy soon distanced them. Further on, some militiamen were transferred from the steamer Hudson in mldatresm, who took of the prteM>9*, whereupon the chase wife abandoned. Tbe murderer* were Jgdgod In J*U at MaysvUld lota at night. A dispatch bom Red Wing, Minn., ■ay* Andrew Gunderion and Fred Melter Were drowned while AKtfny: " St. Petersburg dtejiatohes say the Inhabitant* of two Chine** lettlement* la C. C. Clay, ex-United Statee Sena tor, !• dead. Buron, the Treasury carpenter,aticks to his statement that he was paid out of the Treasury bonttnsent fund for work sup posed to be done for the Department, but 'which was in reality done upon John Sher man’s house. A DisPATCg from Gloucester, Mass., says the crew of a wrecked schooner Who took to the boats were driven almost to can nibalism. Five men were badly frozen and two died, Mitchkll Bbowk, Sherman, Wis., was fatally burned while attempting to get hie team out of a burning barn. Lewis, a three-year-old son of Lewis and Hannah Rosklige, residing in Island Creek Township, 0., was burned to death on the 4th. As an east-bound passenger train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road was crossing tbe tracks of the Pittsburg, Cin cinnati A St. Louis Road, near Western avenue, Chicago, it struck three workmen on the track, killed two of them and mor tally injured tbe otfier. Chloe Ann Violet, of Washing ton, D. C., died after a fast of forty-three days. Her delusion was that God com manded her to commit suicide by fasting. FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Congress reassembled on tho sth. In the Senate, bills were Introduced: By Mr. An thony—To promote the efficiency of the Navy; by Mr. Maxey—To increase tbe efficiency of tne Signal Service of the Army; by Mr. Plumb—To provide for the disposition of a portion of Fort Hayes Military Reservation, Kamms In the House, Mr. Orth rose to a question of privilege, stating it grew out of and affecting the recent appointment of com mittees of the House. Before stating tbe question specifically, he said: M I ask indul gence to announce that it is my purpose at an early day to introduce for conrideratfon nnd action a proposition to change the method of selecting committees. The vast nnd diversi fied interests of tbe country are nil more or less affected by Congressional legislation, and this legislation, as is well known, is almost exclusively controlled by the action of the committees. For this reason their formation assumes importance and is invested with re sponsibility too great to rest in the hands of a single individual, however capable and hon est and patriotic such individual may be. As now exercised it is emphatically a one-man power, and such power is always dangerous and in conflict with tlie principles of republi can government. It is our duty to see that it may not at some future period be used to the detriment of the best interests of tbe people. And now as to the question of privilege, ion have seen fit, sir, to assign me two commitees, namely: second place on Rules, and Chair man or the Committee on Civil Reform. By the kindness and unwavering confidence of my constituency, I have been for twelve year* a member of this House, and I am now enter ing on my seventh term of service here. With two exception* there is not another Republi can member who has thus long represented his people. During that time that I have served as member and Chairman on the Cemmittee on Private Land Claims, as a mem ber of the Committee on Ways and Means, and for ten years as a member of the Com mittee on Foreign Affairs, part of that time as its Chairman. Withone exception, possibly two, I am the only Republican member who, at any time prior to this session, has ever served as Chairman o( any committee of this Ho ist*. In view of this fact I submit that tbe Speaker in his recent, action has done an in iustice to mo and my constituents, for the re lations between a Representative and his constituents are so clearly interwoven that injustice to one is necessarily an injustice to tbe other. They naturally feel a pride and interest in the proper recognition of their Hepreacntative, and especially when such recognition is regarded by custom as attach ing to long years of service. For this tnjus ti<e there is, however, no remeuy. All that can be done is to protest against it, as I do now for myself and constituents, and for reasons that do not require specification, I respectfully a<k the House to excuse me from eervic** 9>a B>«*ufl>er of the Committee on Rules.” The Speaker: “The Chair doe* not 'inderataftt that it uueeessary lor him to vin dicate liitmelf by speaking in reply. It must not, hdtretor, bo infected that because the Chair does not undertake to challenge the statements charging him with injustice, that the Chair acquiesces in tbe views taken by the gentleman from Indiana.” Mr. Orth’s re qiwst was granted. Mr. Hewiu (N. Y.) was relieved from service on Committee on Public Buildings and Ground*. Mr. Hewett (Ala.) ottered a resolution reciting the fact th st the Khedive of Egypt had presented to the United Slates the offiMHk known arCteopatra** Nee dle, and tendering to hk yighnexa the Khe dive the thanks of the peojue of the United states for a gift which onlv tbe oldest of na tion* could make nnd tbe youngest could most highly prize. Adopted. LATE NEWS ITEMS. Discussing the matter of pension^ on th* Sth, Senator Davi* (W. Va.) **id he bad Ktated last year that arrears in the pen •lon bid would coil tbe'Government • sum greater than the national debt, and the itatement was laughed at. Present indica tion* teemed fully to Justify the etatement he then made. Mr. Logan, replying to Mr. Davi., .aid statement* not based on accu rate information should not be allowed to go to the country uncontradicted. Tbe asser tion that pension arrears would cost more than the national debt was certainly not based on any reliable basis. Something of a sensation has been created in Washington Star-route circle* by the wholesale arrest of members of the ring. The arrest* were made cautiously and quiet ly, and tbe matter .was a profound secret excepting to a few newspaper men. The President has nominated Samuej C. Parks, of New Mexico, to be Assoclste Justice of th* Supreme Court of Wyoming, and Joseph Bell, of Naw York, to be Asao date Justice of the Supremo Court of New Mexico. Dr. E. A. Adams, Assistant Medical Bui>erinte»deat of the Michigan Asylum for Insane, was fatally stabbed by a patient In one of the wards while he was making his daily rounds. Tbe patient was hitherto supposed harmless. The stabbing wu done with* large pocket-knife recently lost by one of tbe attendants. The hangman was busy on the 6th. Joseph M. Kotovsky and Charlee Ellis (col ored), St Louis, and John A- Phelps, Mar shall, Mo.; Martin Kankowsky, Jersey City, N. J.; Joseph Abbott, Elmira, N. Y.; Terrence Achille and Sterling Ben, both colored, at Franklin, La., were all suspend ed between heaven and earth. Rev. James Cameron, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, Oakland, Cal., died from the effects of poison. His wife gave him a dose of carbolic acid by mistake tor medicine. Mr. Donovan, attorney for Mr. Frost in the Frost-Sessinghaus contest case, ba* filed a protest against the depoeitlons being regarded a* evidence. Also, a protest against receiving a transcript of a record of the United States Court, Which had never beoh offered la evidCßoe, but waa placed In the depoeitlons as if it had been. Near Cincinnati, Mrs. Mary Muller committed eulcidcrby cutting her throat witharaKor. BBc had been driven insane by *n gnporfeinate rowing-tnaohine agent .Who, .threatened to sue for payment* the ^uld pot tp*k*. The railroad and express office at Glendine, 200 mile* West of Bismarck, D.T., was broken open and three mail pouches were rifled while two watchmen were quietly sleeDinK, NO. 50. The Yawp of aa Ohio Man. Ar a bear robbed of her whelps, so is an Ohio man after be has been torn from an office, except that he then proceeds to act, not like a bear, but like an ass. One Alfred E. Lee, for his merits and qualifications as Private Secretary to Governor Hayes, of Ohio, and as aman uensis during the' campaign when that gentleman was a Candidate for the Pres idency, was made Consul-General to Frankfort. There was not the slightest pretense that he had any other special claims or qualifications for the place. He knew little, if anything, of the lan guage; he had little, if any knowledge of business, and there was not the slight est assumption that he in any way served as an example or witness to the Civil- Service Reform that Hayes pretended to coddle and finally strangled. At the end of the four years another Ohio man wanted the office, and Gar field, with equal disregard of Civil-Serv ice Reform, gave it to him. By that time Lee, so he says, had learned the language and become acquainted with the duties of the office. Doubtless the service would have been benefited by keeping him, and for that reason he ought to have been kept. But the good of the service and the welfare of the country are not the tests of appointment. His successor was appointed for the same reasons that Lee was—because he was an Ohio man and because he want ed the office. At this, Lee, having come home, whines like a baby; barks out in the papers that he has been badly used; hints that Garfield in removing him must have been “crazy;” even as Gui teau claims that he was, in removing Garfield; that Garfield already showed signs of not being himself when his doc tors ordered him to take that journey to the White Mountains, which Guiteau cut short. In no other way can Lee ac count for the displacement of so useful an Ohio man as he was by another Ohio man who hadn’t learned the German language by living four years in Frank fort, but took to it naturally by virtue of. his being born of German parents. Moreover, fifty of the leading men of Frankfort gave Lee, on leaving, a silver service, which a bad man in the New York Custom House seized and still keeps in default of $l9O unpaid duties, which leads the “ bounced” Ohio man to cry out: “ When my country lays a tax on a testimonial of respect, I feel that this is a hardship to me and an in sult to the givers.” Hereafter, perhaps, we may count the “ removed Consul” among the free traders. The amount of noise and discussion he has contrived to make over the whole affair recalls the anecdote of the rene gade Hebrew, who was standing in the door of a restaurant where he bad just dined off a spare-rib, when crash came a bolt of lightning and a peal of thunder. Thinking it a token of Divine displeas ure at his betrayal of his faith, be ex claimed: “My, what a fuss about a little piece of pork!” If Lee had only taken as elevated and public-spirited a view of the Civil- Service four years ago as he does now, he would not have asked for the Con sulship at Frankfort.— Detroit free Press. The Swindling Tariff. One of the most interesting signs of the times is that the people nave con cluded that they will no longer be swindled by a tariff made in the interest of monopolists. The people of the United States are willing to be honestly and justly taxed for the support of the Government, but they are not willing to lx taxed for the further enrichment of monopolists, and protectionists begin to comprehend the fact, and will pnt forth their mightiest energies to retain their hold upon the hard earnings of the peo ple. Money will flow like water. Rep resentatives of all the monopolies will be in Washington to resist, at whatever cost may be required, the passage of just tariff laws. At the recent Tariff Con vention in New York a monopolist by the name of Ricketson became so over whelmed with the protection idea, it foreshadowed such princely fortunes to the favored few, sucn boundless luxuries and palatial residences, purple and fine linen, diamonds and delights, that he broke forth as follows: From Hampshire’s Icy mountains, From Florida's coral strand, To where the Rocky ranges Roll adown their sand. Protection! Oh, protection! The joyful sound proclaim Till each remotest section Has learned the tariff’s name. But, says the Buffalo Express (Rep.), “ the people do not worship protection as an everlasting principle. They do not regard it as a fetich. Reasonable men will not assemble merely to hear it preached and its praises sung, and they will have very little respect for those who do. It is a purely business ques tion and should not be treated in rhym ing verses, but in the light of facts and figures. When a duty & placed on any important article it should be placed there because the prosperity A the country will be increased by it, and it should be no higher and no lower than all the facts in the case warrant. It is a question for economists, not for poli ticians and song-makers. It is possible that if this had been thought of before the New York Convention was called it would never have been called at all.” It is well said that the people do not wor ship protection, and a tariff framed like the present for spoils will not be foier ated. In the State of Indiana the esti mate is that there are now 500,000 houses. The further estimate is that the annual increase of houses is equal to five per cent of the entire number, and that the wear and tear of houses is equal to five per cent a year. Leaving out of the calculation the estimate A rebuilding worn out houses, and assum ing that the entire number of houses built each year is equivalent to five per cent of the 500,000 houses already bruit, we have the fact that 35,000 houses have been erected in Indiana during the past year. It will be conceded by all that it is important to the prosperity at Indiana that houses, the homes of our people, should be taxed aa lightly as possible. The cost of a house is taken into consideration when the price of rent is under consideration, and hence, every renter in the State has a direct interest in the cost of building houses—the mechanic, the day laborer— Jafact all who pay rent. With this THE BATESVILLE GUARD. tumm or Mmarnnw: TesC •S 5 S S.N 4.C4 *.M S.W te.OO SS.M J month. (.IS S.M 4.54 n.M 17.00 K.N **. 4.« 7AS 5.40 15.00 Si.oo SO.SS S *' S.os IS.M W.OO te.OO 40.00 70.0* • •• o.os uno 10.00 w.m woo as.oo W Rwulst sr i Mortal mosss aonois aw abets rates. All teaasteat aMsNaaaasats cash la advance. Marriaeas aad obituary actloes gratis. Rnisisr yearly advsrtustesate ana quarterly. statement of the ease we proceed to con sider the tariff-taxed articles that enter into the construction of the houses in Indiana. For each of the 25,000 houses annually erected, the average cost of .glass will be not less than S4O, upon which the tax is fifty-eight percent. The average eost for locks, bolts, hinges, sash-locks, sash-weights and nails will be $45. These articles are taxed thirty five per cent The cost of white lead and paints will average per house, S2O. These are taxed fifty-four per cent. And the tin required for each house will average sls, and this is taxed twenty four per cent. And the average cost of galvanized iron per house is estimated at $lO, which is taxed thirty-five per cent. To enable our readers to compre hend the amount'of tariff tax paid annually by the people of Indiana on the houses erected, we introduce the following tabulated recapitulation: el « L sxnciM. a5 s 3 i eg r on £ 6 , Glass *4O 00 58 *23 20 Locks,bolts, blnges.sasb- locks, sash-weights and nails 45 00 35 15 75 White lead and paints... 20 00 54 10 80 Tin 15 00 24 380 Galvanised Iron 10 00 35 350 *l3O oo| Total tax per house. *56 85 Here we have for articles which cost $l3O, a tariff tax of $56.85; a tax which, when laid upon the 25,000 houses annu ally built in the State of Indiana, amounts to the sum of $1,421,250 a year. In these estimates we have stud iously kept largely within the limit of fact—indeed we have omitted such ar ticles as mantles and chandeliers —as also all references to repairs and build ing. We have also omitted the expen diture annually for plate-glass, which reaches in Indiana about $500,000 a year, upon which the tax ranges from 63 to 111 per cent. Were these items included, the annual tariff tax paid by the people of Indiana in the one item of building houses would come well up to $2,000,000. Protectionists anil monopolists are in favor of perpetuating} this enormous burden of taxation, which' goes to enrich the few. The demand is that this burden shall be reduced; that the tax collected shall go into the Treasury, and not into the pockets of monopolists. The people of Indiana are becoming earnest in their protests. Those who want protection will be re quired to come out boldly with their scheme. They will be required to state the character of the monopoly they pro pose to protect. Glittering generalities won’t.do; quoting from ancient history .won’t answer the demand. The Con stitution provides for a tariff for revenue, not for protection, and the time has come for facts; fiction has had its day. —lndiana Slate Sentinel. h Disagreeable Reminder. Senator Hill, of Georgia, who—not withstanding the epithelial excrescence on his under lip, manages to maintain all his old fluency of utterance—com mitted an unpardonable breach of eti quette in the Senate the other day. This is a sort of era of good-feeling, but the Georgian either forgot it, or didn’t care for it, for he turned himself loose on some of the Republican leaders with a power of invective that drove one of them (Senator Sherman) out of the chamber, and made them all feel un comfortable. Civil-service Reform was up—and Civil-service Reform is a sub ject on which the Republican leaders and teachers assume an uncommon amount of self-sanctification. They in vented it ten years ago, and they have been challenging the public admiration for their devotion to it every day and every hour since. And yet, says Sena tor Hill, “while the country was weep ing over the tragic fate of the late Pres ident, a Federal Judge was soiling his ermine by inditing a letter to the suc cessor of that resident, appealing to him to make an appointment for the purpose of ■ cementing our coalition’ in Virginia to control the State election. The President, to whom the letter was adressed, while yet the mourning sobs of the people were echoing round him, sat down and made the very appoint ment which that Judge had des ignated—and then, perhaps, with the same ink, baa written a homily on Civil-service Reform in his message to Congress.” This is one illustration of the sincere and pas sionate devotion of the Republican lead ers to the project of lifting the public service out of party politics. Another is found in the brief out instructive history of a late Collector of the Port at New York—dismissed from office for neglect of duty and implied dishonesty in office; nominated for Vice-President, supported by the persons who had dismissed him (Mr. Hayes and Secretary Sherman), and now promoted to the Presidency; Still another case: “Did not everybody know that every man, high or low, black or white, charged with connection with the Returning Board frauds of 1876, re ceived office from the Administration, which obtained the Presidency by virtue of those frauds?” “This,” said the Georgia Senator, “is Civil-Service Re form as practiced by the Republican party.” Nobody answered the Georgia Sen ator, for the very good reason that no body could. The Republican leaders writhed under his exposure of what they imagined were unnoticed and forgotten hypocrisies; and that was all they could do. Senator Hill does not believe that the Civil Service will be reformed, or that there is any intention to reform it— and it must be admitted that the re peated aad deliberate violations of every principle of it by those who assume to be the special advocates and custodians of it are a sufficient warrant for his skepti cism.—Bi. Louis Republican. —Naturally the first thing the Re publicans think of, now that their tem porary restoration to power in Congress is complete, is to pull down the oars that keep them away from the Treasury. The right of unrestricted appropriations is the one right without which power would be meaningless to them. They want no obstructing walls between them and the Treasury.— St. Louis Republican. —Mrs. Mary A. Livermore is sixty years old.