THE BATESVILLE GUARD.
A. DEMOCRATIC JOURNAL.
PUBLISHED EVEEY WEDNESDAY, BY
FRANK D. DENTON.
TERMS:
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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.
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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.