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THE BATESVILLE GUARD. A DKMOCRATIC JOURNAL. PUBUSHBD EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY FRANKD. DENTON. • TERMS' One copy, one year, tn advance SI 50 One copy, six months, in advance 75 Club Rates— Five copies, 57.00. Ten copies and one extra to getter up of club, 814.00. COURT DIRECTORY. THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT. B. H. Powill Judge, Melbourne, Ark. M. N. Dteb, Prosecuting Attorney, Moun lain Home, Ark. Independence County, 2d Monday in Janu uary and July. Stone County, on the sth Monday after the M Monday of January and July. Izard County, 7th Monday after the 2d Mon dax in January and July. Baxter County, 9th Monday after the 2d Monday in January and July. Fulton County, 11th Monday after the 2d Monday in January and July. Sharp County, 13th Monday after the 2d Monday in January and July. Lawrence County, on the 15th Monday after the 2d Monday in January and July. Jackson County, on the 18th Monday after the 2d Monday in January and July. j ’ COUNTY COURT S Independence County, meets first Mondays January, April, July and October. PROBATE COURT of Independence County, meets first Mondays |n February, May, August and November. JAMES W. BUTLER, ROBERT NEILL BUTLER * NEILL, LAWYEFLS, 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 Littlo Rock. Jun 1 ly SAM’L PEETE, Attorney at XsA-w, BATESVILLE, ARK. Will practice in the Court of the Third Ju dicial Circuit. Collections promptly attended to. E. BAXTER. ” W. A. BEVEXB. BAXTER & BE VENS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS. Will practice in the Courts of the Third Ju dicial District, and give special attention to matters in bankruptcy. nov3 ly A.T CANN AN’S, First door below Court-house, you can always find the BEST AND FRESHEST CANNED GOODS Family and fancy groceries and CONFECTIONERIES, FRESH BREAD, CANDIES, CAKES, NUTS, CANNED GOODS GROCERIES, ETC., ETC. Goods pure, fresh and full weight. Give me a call and l ruth nice perfect and entire watla faction. Remember the place—first door be low the Court-house. JOHN CANNAN. SIMON ADLER, BANKER & BROKER Batesville, Ark. Buysand sells State and county serin. Drafts Cashed at small premium. Drafts sold on New -York, St. Louis or New Orleans. Will make It to the advantage of town and country mer chants who wish to send money abroad or get .funds remitted, to call on me. I desire your business and will guarantee satisfactory terms. ’ SIMON ADLER. apr 12-lyr. Batesville, Ark. H. H. WIYSEL, House Builder, CONTRACTOR, Etc., BATESVILLE, • - ARK.. Charge, moderate and reasonable. Plan, and price, furnished on application. T. B. PADGETT, General Ciltaftii, Tai-Pajiii AND Land Agency for N. E, Arkansas. TUTT’S PILLS TORPID BOWELS, DISORDERED LIVER, ■ and MALARIA. „ , From these sources arise three fourths of tUodlaeaae. of the human race. These symptoms Indicate theta-existence: es AppeUte, Bowel. Hick Head* swn«, tallness alter •*< lox, aversion to •a.rtlon of body ar mind. Eructation aoaao duty, niuiuo... Fluttering at the KwLfoU before the »y...blghly ool ere« Vriu., CONSTIFATIONr and do. mandtho use of a remedy that acta directly on the Liver. ABaLlvormmHclneTUTT’B nUJS have no equaL Their action on the Kidneys and Skin ia also prompt; removing an Impurities through there three “aenvw eagers of the system," producing appa. Uta,Bound digestion, regular stoolß.a clear aklnandavlgorouabody. TUTT’S FIALfI o«u»o no nauaea or griping nor interfere with dally work and are a perfect Tofrs hmsbiL. Batesville Guard. VOL. VIII. ST. LOVIS ADVKBTISEKKNTS. HILITIfONTAINE & COm COTTON FACTORS —aito— COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 116 S. Main st., I 206 & 208 Front st., . St. Louis, Mo. | Memphis, Tenau Represented by ALdIT. H. JOBLIN, ED. W. MARTIN & CO., Manufacturers and wholesale dealers in CLOTHING AND Gents’ Furnishing Goods, 616 Locust St., St. Louis, Mo. Represented In Arinins ly R. P. WEAVER. MILT HARRY LINE Memphis,. White and Black Rivet IT. S. MJklld PACKET, For Indian Bay,St.Chario«i.Clarendon,Devairs Bluff, Des Arc, Augusta, Jar’i»onport, Searcy, BatesviHes, Powhatan and Pocahontas. The new and elegant passenger steamer DEAN ADAMS. M. R. Harry, Master, will leave Memphis ev ery Saturday at 5 o'clock n. in., connecting at Newport with the new Black River United States Mail Packet Milt Harry, for Powha’an and Pocahontas, and with the daily packets to Batesville and Upper White River. Through rates to all points. Freight consigned to “.Milt Harry Line,” Memphis or Terrene, will be promptly forwarded. E. R. THOMAS. vB-n2-ly. No. 9. Madison St, Memphis. ' DAVID W. CARUTW, ■. J. BTNNItg, ' PresidanL V ice ■ Preaideat. T. M. MCCUEAM, 6XO. W. CURRT, Secretory. Treasurer, CARUTH&BYRNES Hardware Company. HARDWARE, CUTLERY, CUNB, ETC. 625 N. Main sL and 110 Washington Ata, St. Lout., Mo. Represented tn Arkansas by BEN LABMAX J. F. THUMPLER A 80N DIALIW TW SNOT BUMI, RIFLES, PISTOLS, AMMUNITION, ETC. Also just received a new and elegant amort ment of FUHIWO TACKLE, SPOON TROLLS AND ■HNNKIU, or ALL SIZES AND STYLES, ABTIFICIAL BATT, FINB LINKS, BAM- 800 POLKS, FANCY AND COM- MON FLOATS OF ALL SIZES, MINNOWS, DIP NETS, BBAIDKD Oil StLK, BRAIDED LINEN AND COTTON, BOOKS OF ALL MAKES AND SKA. ORAM LINES. STATE AGENT FOB TUB CELEBRATED BAKED GUN. DISCOUNT TO TKC TRADE. Give us a can. a 406 Main Street, Little Beek, Arkaneaa v4n4-ly Improved Novelty FOLema table. I I 500,000 I J IIN DAILY USE. I /Js USEFUL IX THE SICK 100 M H jHKg ALSO FOB A . Og Study Table, ^7 Ladies* .Table or Lap Hoard, nc-uc AID GIHDEI TARTIES WHI Have Them. Stands firm when in use, and can be folded,occupy ing no space when not in use. Gouverneur.^, y, * loe Muwtcmna DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF INDEPENDEMOE COUNTY AND NORTH ARKARSAN. BATESVILLE, INDEPENDENCE CO., ARK., APRIL 9, 1884. CURRENT TOPICS. The New. tn Brief. The United States Treasury holds $402,875,210 cash'. The British Foreign Office is exam ining into the bogus butter trade of this country. The German Liberal party is assum ing greater importance in the politics of the Empire. Two hundred mules have died near Grenada, Mias., within a lew days, front the buffalo gnat. A Tiflis journal re-ently warned Russia not to bo too sanguine of extending her rule in Central Asia. Berner, the murderer, wh > was the cause of tho riot in Cincinnati, lias been safely lodged in tho Penitentiary. Under protection of the troops an other murderor ventured to take up his abode in tho Cincinnati Jail on the Ist. Interest amounting to $24,000,000 on Mexican National bonds fell due on the Ist and the company was unable to pay. George Bliss testified on the 2d that he charged tho Government only SIOO p r r day for his services, Sundays included Under the new German tariT consu lar supplies are no longer admitted to that country free ot duty. Retaliation is medi tated. Queen Victoria has received ex pressions of sympathy from ail the po tentates in tho world in the hour of her bo reavcmenL The gross receipts of the Post-office department for tlm quarter ending Decem ber 31, were slßß,<Xls less than tor the last quarter of 1882. The returning Ohio troops were warmly welcomed at all stations along the line, and at Columbus a perfect ovation was given them. The Rotterdam Chamber of Com merce asks the Dutch Government to pre vent |he consumation of tho Anglo-Portu guese Congo treaty. The Illinois Supremo Court has de cided that the $lO3 saloon licenses, issued in Chicago to forestall the Harper blgu-ll cense law, are valid. •Frank James will endeavor to prove an alibi In the Mussel Siu ala robbery case. Dick Liddil has gone to Huntsville, Ala., to testify against him. The editor of a comic paper in Mad rid has been sen enced to eight years’ im prisonment for publishing an offensive car icature of King Alfonso. A CONFERENCE committee of indo pendent Republicans met in New Yoik on ; the 31st, and adopted an address to be cir culated throughout tbecoun’ry. Lmisetvs, the winner of last year’s Kentucky Derby, andwtio was oHjkmlupoii gs the greatest race horse ever foaled, has broken down it is thought permanently. Captain Joubert, tho Belgian army officer accused of cheating at cards, ba been found guilty by a court-martial, and will probably lie expelled frotn the army. Zukertort, the chess champion, played twen y-aevun games simultaneous ly at Pittsburgh, Pa., on tho 2Uth, winning twenty-two and losing three. Two were drawn. Governor Hamilton of Illinois has offered a reward at *2OO for the arrest and conviction of Davfsey Wells, charged with the murder of V. M. Coats, of Glasgow, Scott County, in March last. Senator Maxey will offer an amend ment to the trade-dollar bill, providing that these coins bo received al United States depositories and recoined into half dollars, containing 2 >0 1 4 grains each. The excess of exports over imports fcr February was s<i,eiH,tio4. In tho twelve months ending wi.h February imports fell off $67,jM,4G«, and exports decreased SW,- 41)4,136 as compared with the year preced ing. j The Manchester (Eng.) Guardian asserts that ncgotialious are pending be tween England and AiueiicawitU a view to adding to tho extradition treaty a clause which shall cover the authors of the dyna mite outrages. • The projected meeting of the ex-Con federate soldiers and members ot the Grand Army of tho Republic, in aid of tho ex-Confederate Soldiers’ Home, will be held at Cooper Union, Now York, April t>. General Grant will preside. Representative McCoid will intro duce a joint resolution tor the appoint ment of a commission of twomembers from each State to ti ke steps for calling a convention to propose constitutional amendments re lating to the Presidential succession, exer cise of the veto pourer, •■■woman suffrage, Re. 1 At Cincinnati on the 31st instant a large part of the militia of the State was still on duty. The bar ricades about the jail were maintained in perfect state of defense, but there were no indieations of further serious trouble. Threats of vengeance were still made, but tte Mayor’s Advisory Committee recom mended that all outside troops he with dravyn and tbeuity by left in charge of the p lid*. TheOoynty Commissioners were lookfag for rooms ia whfch tho courts may hold their sessions. After threo days and nights ot ter ror the situation at Cincinnati appeared on the morning of the 31st a Itttio more peace able. Tbii was only brought about by the concentration of troops from all parts ot the State and the application of stern re pressive measures, which have involved a deplorable loss ot Ute, and the wounding and maiming of very many more. The city has suffered almost irreparable loss m the destruction by fire ot its Court-house with all the records and one of the ffnest libraries in.the world, and some private buildings, while a largo mount ot plund ering has bean carried on in the defensible eeeroh for arms and anuneniUoß by tho SMfa. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The Department of Justice is hunting for Walsh, the witness whose testimony is wanted in the case against ex-Senator Kei logg. A meeting of college undergraduates, held in New York on the 2!Hh, adopted reso lutions deprecating faculty interference in college athletics. Tub funeral of the late Prince Leo pold will occur Saturday, the stb. A collision has occurred between Russians and Turcomans in the Merv dis trict. Five of the men engaged in the re cent street butchery at Hot Springs, Ark,, have been indicted for murder in the first degree. Jessie Peebles, a girl fourteen years old, committed suicide at Hamilton, Can., on the 29tb. At Dayton, 0., on the 25th a mob at tacked tour United Stater prisoners, who were being transferred from Cincinnati, in charge of deputy Marshals, the impression having spread that they were murderers from the bclengnred jail. A bill will be reported to the House ! at Washington from the War Claims Com mit! ee.thi i week,in which several States are interested. It provides for the payment ot intereit nt six percent, per annum on ad vances by various States for equipping and maintaining troops in the late war, which advances have since been refunded to the Stat s by the Government. The debt reduction for March is es timated at $15,00 i.ood. Numerous wrecks were reported on 1 the Atlantic coast on <h ■ 31st, German troops are being massed on the eastern fron ier. The Crown I'rince of Prussia will as- ; sist. at Pr nee L- opold’a funeral. A British officer has been detailed i to inspect the dcf.-ns.-s o. Canada. There were 490 more business fail ures in the first quarter of this year than of last. Culp, the gas trust fund embezzler in I’hiladelpma, Fa., goes to the Peniten tiary for one vear. Edward Bennett was sentenced on the 31st to six years’ imprisonment for burning his own house in Milwaukee. The steamship San Marcos with 185 passengers aboard ran aground near Gal veston, Tex., on the 3tst. The Oxford-Cambridge boat race has been postponed to April 7 on account of Prince Le> pold’s death. General Millot proposes to hold Tonquin with native troopi and to send home the French regimen's after the cap ture of Hon-; Hoa. The Senate Committee on Appro priations will recommend the appropria tion of $20,783,1578 for naval affairs, being $8,451,980 more than the bill calls for at it came from tho House. The actual decrease in the public debt for March was $14,2 8,221. Several robberies of the mails bc j tween Toronto and Quebec, Can., have oc curred recentlv. No clew. ‘ Rowell, the pedestrian, says he is ’ going to make (i 0 miles in the six-day race, ' and that il shall be his last appearance on ■ the track. | Burglars robbed tho County Treas ■ urer’a office at. G■ eensbiir-. Fa., on Hie Ist. ■ The annual lish exhibition at Fulton , Market, New Yo-k, oiwned on the Ist. I General Gordon's conciliatory pol icy having taUc.l, he has undertaken a vig orous offensive. The carpenters of Troy, N. Y., are on a sti ike, their demand being a lour o'clock knock-off Saturday afternoon. General Graham and troops have left Suakem for Suez. Tue inhabitants are disgusted and Osman Digna is stealing their cattle. Hon. Henry B. Payne, of Ohio, has announced that he will not be a candidate for the Presidency. The high license people carried the election ni Stillwater, Mi in , o t the Ist. The Dubuque (Io.) Board of Trade has adopted resolutions opposing the pres ent route selected for the Hennepin Canal. । Eluah Wright, a brakeman was run over by tho cars at Union City, Tenu., i on the 3lst, and received injuries likely to prove fatal. Rev. Father Joseph Guerdt, of Algona, La., died on the Ist aged, seventy five. He was ordained in New Orleans half a century ago. Foreign immigration is said to be crowding tho natives out of Pittsburgh, Pa. Several hundred familos talk of fertning a colony in Washington Terri tory. Tho advance guard has already gone. An official report of the Vienna po lice states that the assassins who have been doing anai cuist murders there acted under orders of a central committee in New York, of which Herr Most is cliie’. A bill hash en tiled by the Illinois Central Railroad Company in too United States Court at Jaekson, Miss., praying tor an injunction to restrain the Railroad Com missioners from interfering with the road in any way. A manifesto has been issued to the people of Cincinnati by the “Municipal Reform Association,” declaring that recent occurrences demand a severance ot party politics and municipal government. They have nominated a city ticket. Cincinnati has demolished her bar ricades. The annual readjustment of Post masters’ salaries has begun. Lyman A Cubtis", New York toy merchants, have failed for $172.01*. England demands of the Porte the treatment accorded to Ilie most favored na tion. Apacße squaws captured by the Mex icans, say that Charlie MeCoinai was killed by his captors. Minister Hunt’s funeral will take place at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, with military honors. Bill Jones, the man who tried to kill Guiteau in the prison van at Washington, is to be tried April 28. Edmund Yates, editor of the London World, has been condemned to four months’ imprisonment for libeL Prof. Cyrus Northrup, of Yale College, has accepted the Presidency of the Minnesota State University, at Minneap olis- Thb Emperor William ia said to be oonttaed to his room. Since the departure of General Gra -ham Osman Digna has again assumed the offensive. The British Government considers it unnecessary to send troops to Kh*{toum. Thb second annual convention of the Western Stock Growers’ Association coni' menced in Dodge City, Kas., on the 21. Wm. Barnett, fifty years of age, was, together with his horse, struck by lightning and instantly killed near Youngs town, 0., on the 2d, The New Hampshire Greenbacker; will hold their Slate Convention at Man Chester, September 1, Judge Field says he is not in the Held as a Prrsideiv.ial can lidate. Great damage was done by the tor nado on tho Ist in Eastern Indiana, West tern Ohio and Wes'ern Pennsylvania. The board appointed to investigate the charges against Railway Mail Superin tendent French makes a report exonerat ing him. Twenty-nine United States prison ers convicted of offenses in the Indian Ter ritory have been sent to the Detroit House of Correction. The Oluo Legislature is considering several measures for relief of those wh< suffered injury or losses at the hands o/ the Cincinnati rioters. XLVniTH CONGRESS. In the Senate on the 28th, a joint resolu tion was reported, proposing an amendment to the Constitution for woman suffrage. The bill passed authorizing a reward to private parties for discovery of the Greely expedi tion. The education t ill was taken up, and Mr. Lamar aduressed the Senate, favoring iti pastaie. Mr. Cullom wanted tho bill modified so that it should only apply to the South. Mr. Georze favored the hill as it stood In the House a resolution was Introduced and referred fixing June 3 as the date for final adjournment. The McGarrahan bill was ta ble I. Several private bills passed, and a night Fe st >n wits held to consider pension claims. Adjourned t.ll Monday. In the Senate on the 3fst a communica tion was received from the AttorneyGenerai repeating his request for increased clerical force. The bill to establish a forest reserve at the headwaters of the Missouri was reported favorably. Mr. Platt addressed tho Senate od the bill to make the Patent Office a separate department In the House the resolution for an investigation as to food adulteration was reported with a declaration that the mat ter did not come within the province of Con gross. The resolution was recommitted. Bilk were introduced: To make Oakland, Califor nia, a port of delivery; to repeal the taxon tobacco and the distillation of apples and peaches; to equalise taxation of domestic and foreign insurance companies; to appropriate HUUJO) for relief of the Mississippi Hood suf ferers; to authorise the appointment of s Missouri River commission. Resolutions were offered commending Minister Sargent's eer vices at Berlin; calling on the Sherman com mittee to investigate the Cincinnati riot; call ing for a report on the feasibility of construct inv coast line water-ways. The trade dollat bill was discussed without action. Repre sentatlve Small of Bouth Carolina took the oath of office. In the Senate on the Ist, the bill to ascer tain expense^ incurred by the people of Idahc tn the Bai n K'k wr.r was placed on the calen dar. Tho bill for relief of the Jeannette survi vors nasaod. 1 h ’education bill was further de bull'd and considerable miscellaneous business disposed of In the House, among numer ous bills reported, was one for the Inspection of stock and dressed meats. Tho measure Is s substitute for several others. The trado-dok lar bill passel. The Kei for-Boynton commit tee reported a resolution that the chargee against Boynton wore not sustained. The re port was laid over. In the Senate on the 2d a resolution was referre I to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Inquiring whether the United States is bound to pay certain amounts to Spain for damage* sustained In 1819, Bills passed to increase the efficiency of tho Land Office; to improve tho coinage; also several war claim bills. The education bill was discuaaed without sc'ton.... In tho House tho Indian appropriation bill was taken up, Mr. Kilis explaining its provis ions. Mr. Throckmorton favored a Terri torial government for the five civilized na tions. A recess was taken tn give the mem- Iters an opportunity to shake hands with Gen eral Grant, who wus escorted upon the fiooi of the House. Adjournment occurred soon afterward. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. In the Senate on the 3d bills were reported favorably tor briilgm at Nasu ville, Tenn., and White Cloud, Km. A | bill was introduced to establish a silk cul ture bureau. The educational hill was taken up and Senator Pendleton op posed it on constitutional grounds, Senator Beck also spoke against it, 'and Senator Williams in favor of I it. Notice of several amendment, was giv en In the House the resolution was adopted authorising the door-keeper to em ploy laborers to fold speeches. The In dian appropriation bill was taken up and an amendm^ So abolish the office ot In dian Inspectors anil have their duties per formed by army officers was agreed to. Cincinnati is peacefully engaged in preparations to repair damages. At Waterville, Me., on the 3d. a pris oner Sit fire to the jail and perished in the flames. , Fire losses in the United States dur in? the month o' March w- re "8,250.” 4L In Rhode Island on tho 3d the vote for Governor was: Binrne, Republican, 15,903; Hegar, Democrat, 0 MW. Another advance as ten per cent* has been ordered by t-.e barbed wire manu facturers. The Michigan Saw Works at Fast Saginaw were totally destroyed by ti eon the 3d. Loss, sloo,'o ). The remains ot ex-Minister Partridge, who commuted suicide in bpa.n, arrived m New York on the 3d. London had a big fire ia Pat rooster Row on the 3d. The direction of the wind was all that saved BL Paul’s Cathedral. The losses reach $1,500,00 >. The semi-annual m eting of the United States Railway Mail Service Mu tual Benefit Association was held on the 3d at Columbus, O. General Graham does not believe Osman Digna will attack the friendly tribes. Foreign consuls at Cairo oppose the new stem" duties. The Senate Republican caucus on the 3d approved amendments to the educa tion bill, limiting the appropriations to be tween $70,000,000 and $81,000,0J0. The funeral of Private Getz, of the Governor’s Guard, Columbus, 0., who was killed at Cincinnati, took place at Colum bus on the 3d with full military honors. Governor «Hoadly and staff were in at- A motion has been filed to set aside the verdict of the jury in the Case ot Mal lett Kilbourn vs. John G. Thompson, l Twenty lives an reported lost by the burning of tb.ateamsr Rebecca Mver- Ifigham on the Chattahoochee Rivdr at Fits geraid’s Landing, near Florence. Ga., fas BMndng otfae M. NO. 15. The Republican Newspaper Campaign. The readers of Republican newspapers now-a-days appreciate the fact, well known to journalists, that reporters can find what they ace sent to look for. The New York Tithes' correspondents see nothing but anti-Arthur feeling. The New York Tribune and the Philadelphia Press are gifted with men who encounter an almost unanimous Blaine feeling. The Springfield Republican, which can not only, in its own opinion, discern the face of the sky, but also read the signs orthe times, can discover (or divine) a general yearning for Edmunds. The Chicago Tribune and the hyphenated Inter-Ocean, of that city, the apostle of truly El Mahdi Republicanism in the Northwest, perceive that the mountains Hane and the prairies flush and the valleys gleam, while all the little hills do clap their hands, for John A. Logan. The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette which now unites the Napoleonic might of Field Marshal Htflstend with the es sential ethics of that truly good man. Deacon Richard Smith, is able only to size and sei<e the claims of Honest John Sherm in. The Indiana papers of radi calism are certain that either Senator Ben. Harrison or Postmaster-General Gresham should be the “thecoming man.” And so it is. There are as many preferences among the people as there are desires in editorial breasts. Republican journalism has simply be come a mechanism, for ascribing the wishes and antipathies of editors to general readers. The sole value of the prevailing practice of printing Presiden tial pointers, in such newspapers, lies in the presumption that the newspapers reflect a local or a larger sentiment and make themselves the mediums of it The impartial Democrat who reads with judicial mind the medley of im pressions in Republican papers finds certain facts or characteristics running through them. The first thing that ! strikes the attention is that there is notl very much about the Presidency in that | party at alt. Indiffercntism is more , the rule than interest. The “booms” for various aspirants have their initial impulse in the ambition of the would be candidates themselves. The rest is the work of not unselfish or unthrifty friends of theirs, who know how to ply the arts of mention, interview, gossip, advocacy, report, suggestive avowal and safe disclaimer. The notable in ertness of the Republican rank and file encourage these efforts. They are neither resented nor ratified. They arc s mply unopposed. Continued little by little, the efforts have a tendency, be ing neither antagonized nor indorsed, I to create a sort of passive acceptance for themselves. The sheer effect of iteration can be predicated of them— ! but not more. Still that has enabled the candidates in sporting parlance, to be entered for the race. They are now taking their exercise on the track; but the jockeys and the stable boys number more than those on the grand stand and the pool-sellers have not begun business at all. Another consideration which the nntc-convention “booms” among the Republicans impress is the varied character of the reasons or “claims” put forth. A qualification forthe Presi dency is hardly urged at all, if at all urged, it is made second to the asser tion of “availability.” This “availa bility” does not signify that the candi date has special points of favor to any conditicn of public opinion; but it sig nifies that his friends claim for him some desiralde special strength which makes him a little stronger than the Republican vote itself. Mr. Edmunds is urged because it is asserted that “the Independents” would support him. That, assertion has nowhere been tested by evidence —but it may be regarded as on offset to the known fact that the Vermont Senator is unpopular with the working masses of his party'. As plain people are wont to dwell on the beauties of the mind, so are those Republicans who have not commended themselves to the manly and active forces in poli tics addicted to references to “the In dependent vote,” “the better element,” etc. As a fact, politicians man P.epub lican conventions, make Republican nominations and conduct Republican campaigns. They may not be able al ways to nominate whom they would; but they are invariably able, in the Re publican party, to defeat the nomina tion of those for whom they have “no use.” They have “no use” for those whose vocation it is to profess to be bet ter than other people, and their aversion to Pharisees is not to their discredit. The special claims urged for the others cjn be stated in a word. Mr. Blaine's strength with the corporations is urged for him. General Logan’s friends in sist that the entire “soldier vote ' would be for him. Mr. Sherman is advocated on the ground that “the monied men would put up for him.” Mr. Harrison and Mr. Gresham are hailed as those • who could “insure Indiana.” It is true that a genuine desire for Mr. Blaine ex ists among some Republicans. It is as true that he is hateu by other Repub licans and distrusted by independent men. The bald and bold question of his strength wi'h corporations accounts for that distrust, as well as the shifty conduct of the man in public positions. Corporations and Mr Blaine are not benefited by this kind of talk for him. Corporations have become expert in politics—not by showing their hand. There is a great sentiment against them. Mr. Blaine's enemies could well advertise his corporation alliances. His friends are not wise in doing so. The assumption that General Logan carries the soldier vote or any other classifiable vote in his pocket, is not a justice or a compliment to that vote. Soldiers are citizens; they are Democrats or Repub licans, according to convictions. They ate hot men who sink principle, on apbflteeso large as the Presidency, even in comradeship. The claim for Mr. Sherman is based on the policy and po tentiality of corruption solely. The light which history has caston Dorsey's methods makes the avowal of a pur pose to renew them only the hardihood of desperation, and the American peo- Clecan be trusted to deal with it, if it i attempted. The ability to “insure Indiana,” claimed by Mr. Harrison and Mr. Gresham is worthy of consideration. Neither has ever run successfully before the people of that State. The claim is good only to draw attention to them, for a while. Banders see none of the reasons which THE BATESVILLE GUARD. TERMS OF ADVZBfiEnNk Ilin. lte.|»ta. |«la. xoetoleeL i»: ’?s RS I weeks.. J. 03 4.0 S (.00 9.00 40.00 1 month. S.M 0.00; o^o IS.OO 57.00 00.00 Smooths 4.00 7. SO 0.00 13 00 N.M M.M I months 0.00 10.00 U.M; 10.00 M.M N.M omonths 0.00 10.00 N.M; 07.00 00.00 M.M Ayepr.... M.oo| N.M N.M| M. 00; TO.OO] Mo.o| SW’Bpsdal w sinsital osuosa AkiMs No show rates. . All traiHtsnt aSwrUtemsMo cash In aOrawe. Msrrlasss and (Mwarv asUsa cwMa anil Sir Nasir strsstlsaasuts Sas easiterta should stir the thought and heart of party, in a Presidential year, moving ■ withiu Republicanism at this time. The endeavor to interest Republicanism at all in the question is forced and has met with very qualified success so far. The party, however, is not without excite ment. There is a struggle of factions in it. The objective point is the organ ization machinery. In the struggle go ing on, the Stalwarts are ahead. They have the machine. They mean to keep it They may not be able to make the nominations. They will Hot fail to dic tate those which are made.— Albany Arqus. The Duty of Congress. Congress has been three months in session. Long before its organization it was known, on the testimony of Re publicans who had been participants in some oi the acts, that Indiana had been purchased in 1880 by an enormous cor ruption fund raised to save the Repub lican party after the defeat in Maine; that United States Judgeships had been sold in advance for SIOO,OOO in cash by the Republican candidate for President; that a Cabinet position had been pledged to a New York banker as his reward for raising the Indiana corruption fund, and that the election in New York had I een purchased in the same year by “a golden stream from Stephenson's bank.” It was known that, the present Presi dent of the United States, while Vice- Presidentelect, had boasted at a ban quet given in honor of ex-Senator Dor sey that Indiana had been carried by “soap.” These are the worst c^mes that could be committed against a republican gov ernment. They strike at its very exist ence. They strike the United States Supreme Court, the final arbiter of the Constitution, of its purity and inde pendence, and rob the people of the right of sovereignty. Yet the Democratic majority of the House of Representatives has remained for three months inactive and appar ently indifferent and has made no at tempt to investigate these infamous crimes and to hold up their perpetrators to public indignation. In the course of the regular business of Congress the Committee on Expendi tures in the Department of Justice have found it necessary to investigate the ex penses and methods of the Star-route prosecutions. Incidentally they have stumbled on some startling facts! President Garfield's Republican At torney-General has told them that he left the Cabinet, after Garfield's mur der. because President Arthur and his advisers were in sympathy with the pub lic robbers, and no one desirous of an honest prosecution could receive any ' moral support from the Administra tion. President Garfield’s Postmaster-Gen eral has said that Garfield was probably murdered because of his -prosecution of the Star-route thieves, and that in his belief the Attorney-General and Post master-General were also marked for assassination. Do not these incidental revelations prove the necessity and the duty of searching Congressional investigations? —N. Y. World. Logan’s Buncombe. The smallest appropriation that ever received the atteniiomof Congress was that of fifteen dollars for which the bill was called up in the Senate by Senator Logan. The object was to refund that amount to a party who had paid it to the Government under a misapprehen sion in a patent case. Upon its being intimated by some of the Senators that the bill was too tri fling for the consideration of the Senate which has a preference for larger game, something that has millions in it, the reply of Logan showed that al though the appropriation he asked for was small there was nothing small about Logan. He sa d that people who were poor were just as much entitled to their just dues as those who were rich. It is not certain that this idea is origin al with the Illinois Senator. Something of that kind may have been thought of before, but it struck the Senate as a novelty, for it has been a long time since the ma'ority of that body thought it worth while to attend to interests lower down in the pecuniary scale than those of millionaires and * groat cor porations. The intrusion of such a doc trine niust have been a surprise to the more than a score of millionaires in the Senate to whom the suggestion that there was anything due to poor men was certainly a new tangled sort of rev elation. But it took the Senator from Illinois to bring them up to a proper sense of their duty to the poor man. Senator Logan is not much on grammar, and there are people who have the advant age of him in the correct use of the dif ferent parts of speech, but when it comes to devotion to the poor man’s in terests he won't allow any body to dust him on the road. As a Pres’dential election in which he is going to be a candidate is approaching, he is particu lar in having it understood that he is the poor man's friend.— Harrisburq (Pa.) Patriot. . —The South has a new terror in the person of a tramp who steals children. He does not claim rewards, but seems actuated by simple viciouaness. A few days ago he lea an Atlanta newsboy into the country, cut his ears off so as “to be able to recognise him” when they met again, and sent him home. A party of citizens went after the tramp with shot-guns, but he easily escaped. Shortly after this he stole two children from Paulding County and algain'es caped. The children were found after two days’ search, tied to. a tree in a swamp. His latest outrage was the ab duction of a small boy from Chicka mauga.—St. Louis Pool. —A Conan is so polite that if you in ' quire after his health he answers; “ Thanks to the honor you do me in asking such a question; my health is good. A side man says to the person who visits him; “Thanks to your visit, I feel better.” If a Corean speaks to a Japanese he commences: “You are so learned,” or ’'You are so 'great;” and if he meet a funeral procearion he stops it, and, going up to the coffin, says: ”1 profoundly regret the death of this vir tuous man,” oven If be had never in bis life seen or heard of the defunct.