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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-24
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n TUESDAY, MARCH "a.


Just as the country had taken long
breath over the announcement of the COM
pletion.of Bancroft's history, comes the in
telligence thai Bryant and Gay are about
beginning history of the United States,
covering precisely the same period detailed
by Bancroft. 1t is enough to give one III
erary ssue to think of Bryant chained%o the
gang plank OF statistics covering the periocs
of the nations birth, growth and infancy
when1-epmpleted it is a book ~'nicn
conscientious Americans will probably
buy, butao one will ever read Mr.. Bryants
age. is nst one at which man would apt to
approseh such herculean task wish-spirit.
Mr.. Sidney Howard Gay. is a Journalist OF
the 6rst rank, and whatever he takes in
hand will bewell dene. There are 'Ferks,
ho,Eever ~ hich would be read with 'inore
satisfaction than popular history 'o- the
Uni ed States.
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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY MARCH a. 1874

thsy-Esre paid oct Of funds collected else
where, ST. $40, or an average of $500 each.
Goingon to CLASSIFY there are seventeen other
ports presided over by l34 United States dig
nitaries, who manage to colfect s2l!lO each,
at eeost of se5, 890. thus drawing a pension
of over s722 each for services net named in
their instructions. In eight posts fifty-eight
officers collected s5I ,5s3, andreoeived for the
service, s55.76S. I'm four ports ahe amount
of Size 446 was collected at a cost of Sl36, Alb.
Summing the Eve groups last canned, and
it gives 5l5 able bodied pensioners, all, no
doubt, good curbstone politicians, who man.
age tescrape up for the goveraHnent sls3 800,
but draw out ia salaries s43ass7l, thus cost
ing the people Sol ,472 to SUPPORT set
of rbernacles who would V<aie If they
had to work for living instead of spong-
ingo from somebody else. .Eg7elve men
in. Virginia are Kept under pay rs revenue
collectors, who never collect dollar. In
Florida, two custom houses support seven
teen. persons for the annual service of col
leoting fifty two doKars. Why~ont ab olish
these drains upon the public treasury? Why
not reduce the force of idle pensioners? The
answer is, rot that they are serviceabl Q to
the government, but they are ,neeessaI y to
the "great party" to carry elections. That
is the service for which they are PAID.
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The, Chicago newspapers have ne~'FSc
tim to. interview" The victim rs a wo-
mans Seung woman-in Official ststion,
and of course, hedged in by ronsnee. NShe
has lust been appointed to the pension
agency in that city-sn office bringing the'in-
cumbe II sod a year. and as the Poktfcal
gzabbeI are all outraged, the city enjoys
the nov Shy. FThe young lady is the dsaSh-
Ter. of. .tbhss ate General Sweet, who
filed the place of pension
AGENT for -sene years, and in whose
Office the, daughter learned the business
from the sesiREing. serving as deputy after
he left it, and Hztil he went on to Washing
ton lust 1 s6ore her death. She is NOT very
.triumphai Il owe the victory, the newsPa-
pers say, / sr.nasans to introduce some Te-'y
marked in prroze-1ents so soon as she gets
fairly tow' nix. THE office is just the same
a. that hello Thy Gen. w. III. Terrell, IA this
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-24

Lives of Encoln have been so abundant
and intolera bnesince his death, and even he
toreit. that tine announcement of new at.
tempt would ,dinde- ordinary circumstances,
be received with .s very languid interest.
The tact. how sgeE,ttat, of all the histories OF
his life. not npe,Ass given satisfaction, is a
promise that d. an ssttempt by competent
hands,syould be welcomed by the nation.
1t is safe to p1 sdiet that Colonel John Hsy
and John q. Rheolsy. who were associated
with the. presid Hltscne as law student, and
both as secretar iss,csr, If they make the at
tempt, present stbiogEsI by which would do
the subject amplste Justice. Colonel
Hay was in ] lincoln & Henrdon's law
office in Spri Egfeld, Illinois, and s+
forwards . accom- psaniec Mr.. Lincoln to
Washington as rs private secretary. Mr..
Nicolay.wsa in "a snnlilat position and these
two men asc prob al y. Letter fitted to make
on abstrscs of tb elite ssEd character of the
great president la.n raEy that could be
aamed. BoSh are men Of cultivation, Col.
Hay being, green dIentiy man of letters,
and above all thin 81 fitted to retouch the
simple grandeur of LAncoln's life.
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1t is enough 10 mska-an honest man des-
pair of .eRubIican govesnment, or rather its
admins trztion, so contemplate its abuses.
The Chic ago Tribsne puts the Office holding
abuse in be light of u Rension system, a
very appro vrsate esnceit. The war veterans
form but a art oftse army of pensioners on
the public ia. IDS. Mr.. Dawes mis- blast on
economy alta. Ma the system OF collecting
revenue, and !, sass the fgnkes. Take ont
eight of the lie sding ports at which the
total revenue coll scted reaches sl75s S95 .2sz,
for which amount he salaries take 4.s2 per
cent, and there are lett LIS ports, at all OF
which the aggregate eeeipts are but s., 1e9.-
793, and the cost of col ieetag THAI sum last
year was 81 .664 s73, or veI near to "a per cent
of the whole sum. But 81 ting little closer,
and there are found to be thirty-two ports
in the United States where here is not dol
lar of revenue collected. Yet these ports are
manned with pensioners to the number of l32
persons kept under pay for doins Z no service
whatever. The annual cost of these useless
dependents isover $4,000. In fourte. en- other
ports named there are ninety officers, who
together collected sl,196, or little over
twenty-five dollars apiece, for which service
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AN URN FOR THE GOOD DEACON.


Tnibutes like this to true goodness, rom
the New19ork Sun, rovive desponGipg loPs
in human nature:
The Courier-JOurnal takes up Canon. hi n-s-
leys proposal to add al American to tke CO lee
tion. OF. buried greatness IN Westminster Alb hey,
and dominates Murat Halstead, on Ike gro un6
that he~is handsome, saying, deacon Isicl lard
Smith is too short" This is frivolous, AID uR-
worthy the leader of southwestern. jouE ali sin-
Not that we dispute the good looks OF Nh Irst
Halstead. In the fullnecs and power. Of his
noble physical proportions, he Is one
OF the finest specimens of n1aan OF
letters. But personal beauty csnaott be a
qualification for. burial in Westminster ID
hey, since one dead n1k.n' is no hsn& Ter
than another; and when they. are redstcid 10
ashes by the new process CT cremation. TIE AL
kaline remainder OF a iHSistead VIII be~Eb BIO ut
the same, both in. height aCd appearance es he
alkaline remainder OF Deacon Richard hlit b {;
and in that ultimate mass % atoms, one will be
just as tall and, just short as the other I'd
straight legs and bandy.+sgS Will staRGsS n a
par. AL the personal mSgnihcence whiot tb %
COurier-JoHrnal now glori&es- will then ~ =
disappeared in mere SMOKE. and gas, hcw
about, and yielding, itmsy be, a new and .-ol -
geOus means of sport to those
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-24

New, York finds C. snse tor uneasiness in
several directions, l. ~ theyast volume Of
her trade be ois erted ky streams which turn
aside to other points, reducing if not dry
,ine.up the falz tain ~ Naa tn. At one
moment she bess avs a jealousy of Boston,
nv .hoasting that ,she = AtSlcan trade, hereto
fore given to Msssach' isstts, Us coming to
Ee~.York But she B. IEsetin ADDE'S not af-
feet to whip the,deviI rounA thestump, but
states the fact ia plain ,SnHls, thGt the pro-
vision trade is GEanjLg sEaysto Chicago,
Cincinnati and slltthe large seabeard cities,
north. and south The tact admitted, the
Rulletir, next seeka the Gauss. aao I-eads the
New Ysrkers a PEetty' soHRd lecture on
their short-sighted sEicl . that areNSorking
greater injury thsn,siv nntages Tie Bulle-
tin fnds4h the xes,ei p aPshave quietly
got an arrangement for hacking their
through shipments fDm Chicago to
Liverpool and otbsr European ports
at a sayizg of srart er of cant pc
pound for freight on the same eoad4 that
carry produEs to New iNork- Also. che pack
.ers ike to sell to shippers at home aad act
their money on the ,E-ail without ten .Or
twelve days. delay. Then there ars -saEss
very. stupid. abuses pointei o utin theinspee--
tion,Gystem Of New YORK that subject the
western packez5 to disagEeeal'Ie losses- The
Bulletin holds the produce exchange re:
sponsikle for all. these anRayan ces which at
tend the trade with that city and takes ft-to
task for reform. 1t is question able II even
this bold admonitlon has no. come toe late;
Animals never derget a bad trick Oaae
learned. so also the new mathods of bus
ness, the va novstians upon cd established
roR1ines are final Revolutions never go
tack. And viii pot be many yeas before
tire interior.eities OF America NdI trade with
Eurose, indifferent to Manhattan and Peter
SSuarve4ant. ali.. .ru silf rfl1f uur
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The Eew York Sun puts somewhs. worn
out judgment rather tersely. A .coscmpo-
rary had insinuated that the Sun was ,lever
so happy az when it found a weak SPOT in
the arB80<. of the administration. To sVhich
the Sun responds with neatness:
This is atssibutingfto happi altogethe too
common asource. We take no pleasure ia the
misforfune;6s1d disgrace of our country. ~ hat
we rejoi@e at is when we can II pt in the adkin-
istratioa any strong spot, anything wOrttsc- of
Communications; but alas. such GiscOverieSaare
like angels WIS Is, few and far between.
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ITALY.

7oHre qnH cnH = 49, u nurfrf
rHE SUNNY dcALIANs oELEBRAFE-A NEW
BATCH ar CARDINALS TO BE TURNED OUT.
RoME, March zS.-To-day being the 18th
of the accession Of < Victor
Emanuel to the tkrone Of Sardinis, the peo-
pie of the countrY are observing it as holt
day. - ass'.as i0s0i ...--...-.-----lo ~. 9.
- The pope has intissted that Archbishop
Manning and other arehbishops will be ere
ated cardinals at the next consistory.le IL
a The King day received some three thou
sand persons from all parts OF the kingdom,
who came to congratulate him on the 18th
anniversary of his accession. Signor Wis.,
cont Vendita, the minister oiforeigh affairs,
presented to his majesty an address from
the American and English residents.
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q" gay creatures of the element
THAT In the colors OF heralnbow live,
And play L the plighte6 clouds"

i&Eti that whlRh- cannot, bsS5lcyn away skld
(which will not, erely live ia memory amin
diYidual thing, but Will be dfx.used in evars K
tending influence, is true goodness; and In this
unequalled gift, Deacon Richsrd.Smith outshin IS
allcOmpetitors, and leaves Hzlstead nowheFe1 n
the comparison. For this reason We appeal to
the CourierNJouERal to revise ITS JudgmentG1
t eabsurd test of ShOrtneSS, and to advocate tOr
the vacant urn in sVestminster abbey the t1uly
good candidate we have pnt up. Ne appeal 2lSo,
above all, to Mura& .Halstead him self TO decline
this inVidious cQnrpliment from ouisvflIe, and
to join with all his own magn2R& lous heart In
paying honor TO his illustrious neighbor. his
friend of old, his associate in uls1S things espe
cially in selecting men To be appo1 nted by Presi
dent Grant five yeaxSRgo, in a ward, to Deacon
Richard Smith of Cincinnati, for the ressons
simple vet morally beautiful thathe is a trBl y
ZDOd ErRE.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-24
RAKINGs FROM THE RUINS.

AFTER THE ooNFLIcr-coUNTING THE COST
VARIOUS AND SUNDRY PARAGRAPHS.
The account of the Sunday night fire was
so full and complete in the Sentinel yester-
day, that little CT interest is left for this
morning. Investigations continued yester-
day show that the estimates of losses, as first
given, are about as nearly correct as it will
be possible to make them until exact com
putations can be made. 1t may be we'll to
recapitulate the losses more in detail than
it was convenient to do Sunday NIGHT
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SPAIN.

REWARD FOR BUTCHER BURR< EL-gHE NEW
CCBAN RULER.
MADRID. March 2s.--The government con-
promotion of General Bupriel to
the rank of fieId-inarshal, for eminent SER
w ,es rendered ia Cu6s The commission
gt Don Jose Concila, who has been appointed
tosucceed Captain General Jovalar is AN.
dea5tood TO embrace the government OF
Pogo Rico as we'll as Cuba .--
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FOREIGN.
ENGLAND.

REUCRN OF THE VETERANS.
LONDON, Mareh2s.-Ten thousand peopse
witnessed the landing ofthe' III ighianders, at
Portsmouth, to-day. Tits understood that
the queen has ordered aninspeetioE in Hyde
Park, on FRIDAY. of all the troops Of the ex-
petition which Ssre reached home.
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NO USE TRYING.

- -. TAME LOT OF DEMOCRATS. 80 rsl
PRoyIDEkcE, r. J., March 23.-The demo
cratic state convention met day, and re-
solved to make no nominations for state of
fees. 1t appointed state committee and
adjourned.
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FRANCE.

a RESOLUTION DENAxDED-THE oxIRE or
SANTA CRUZ KBcKED OUT. -1IQ
lPARss, March BIN the assembly to-day
a profess was presented demaaz3ing the. dis
so<utiel of the. chamber. The protest is
sigaed kg NJ. Gambetta. Ledon, Roliin.
ChstleuleI. Lacour, Peyret and Bsrodit.
B&SoNSx, March % French authorities
conducted 6he cure of santa Cruz to the
frontier. rr-T az
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4. A bill has been introduced in the New
York legislature tor the creation of a board
of railroad commissioners, to be invested
with general supervision over all the rail-
roads in the state, The powers given to the
commission are mainly to procure and fur
nish to the legislature accurate information
relative to the management of the railroads
of the state and tue grievances to which the
people are subjected, which existing laws
fail to supply. The commissioners are to be
three in number, appointed by the governor
with the advice and consent of tho senate,
and are to hold Office for two, three and four
years each, as may be determined by lot.
Their salaries are $4,000 each. q. 80
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-24
INSURANCE.
Total insurance. =.
It was understood that the Sheets block

UIINOINtVOO
was insured by Bissell & Co. to the amount
of $50 900; but Judge Martindale, their agent,
says it is not so. consequently the damage
Gone to the building is total loss, and Har-
nv Sheets the sole loser. Mr.. Casteel, the
cigar man, and Mrs. Abbott are in reality
the heaviest losers, since they lose all they
possessed in the world. A policy of Mr..
Casteel had expired some two weeks before
the fire, which, as he intended soon to remove,
had not been renewed.
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indianapolis, March is. 1874.

At late temperance meeting in New
York, Mr.. j. n. Stearns related the follow
ing anecdote of Horace Greeley: '"Three
years ago." be said in loud voice, "a Doc
tor of Divinity DIR. Ganse) said at a tenn
perance mass meeting that he believed that
the Lord Jesus Christ made and drank in
toxicating liquors. Horace Greeley Zap
lpiause] that staunch friend of total absti-
hence, walked forward in his white coat, and
folding his hands sleepily before him said
in that thin, piping voice you all remember,
You can't make me believe my Lord ever
made and drank intoxicating wine.' Nor
me either, shouted methodist minister in
the.pulpit, and continued Mr.. Stearns, the
house re echoed with applause. ~
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a Prof. Richard Proctor is said to be de-
vout Roman Catholic, and to have no SYM
pathies with what is generally known as
spiritualism.
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PROSPECTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE.


AS far as ascertained by Sentinel repre-.
sentative, but one person in the city liable to
get there) was absent from the fire of Sun
day night. This was lady, whose husband,
in his excitement, ran away from the house
leaving her to follow if she choose; which
she didn't. In general way, one may say
all Indianapolis was there. Yesterday, from
sunrise to sunset, the ruins and their i'm
mediate vicinity were visited by crowds OF
people who wished to see how the place
looked bydaylight. Police guarded Martin
dale's block until all the goods in
the stores were taken away. The
debris had been removed sufficiently
to allow the passage of street cars.
Those who were around the ruins yester-
day were evidently forcibly impressed with
the idea that iron fronts are not of much ac-
count in a fire. The massive castings were
bent and indented and the iron girders
twisted by the heat. Old-fashioned, thor
oughly burnt, brick seems to be about the
only thing that fire has comparatively little
effect upon. In the Martindale block
reporters, met with exceedingly good
fortune. All their papers, reports,
records and books, were saved uninjured,
and the business will be continued without
interruption. Judge E. b. Martindale, and
j. b. Martindale, rs well as several of those
~ n.
taken up quarters in the Hubbard block on
South Meridian street. With the immense
amount of loose material that now lies in
the burnt section. it will be some time be-
fore pedestrians can pass with either
comfort or safety. Two streams
of water were kept pouring in
the cellar of the vajen BLOCK, by No. 5
and No. 6 reels. the fire having broken out
again there during the forenoon. The "Tal-
bott block" floor, which had been laid with
much care and nicely flor teselated floor
when completely, is badly broken on the
northern half, and the cellar is nearly filled
with the ruined walls which fell into it
night. The Sheets block, though
badly ..gutted" and broken, has many OF
its inner walls yet good and strong.
~ THE FUTURE
promises to make the burnt section even
better than before. Mr.. Reuter-, the con-
tractor, is in favor of brick for future build.
ngs, as iron fronts, though handsomer, are,
rs has been proven, rather not qnite the
hing. The work OF rebuilding Mercantile
row will begin as soon as the rubbish can he
cleared away. Judge Martindale is undecid-
sd yet as to what will be done. IL
$ his desire To pull down the
whole building Martindale block and
srect a building similar in design to the one
planned on Market street. The space from
Market street to the alley next to Sheets
llock will be filled in and no small build
ngs will any longer hide their diminished
heads on the side of the street. If the in
urance companies will agree to tn the plan |
NJ above mentioned, the fire will be the cause |
4 making that part of the city much hand |
oiner than it would otherwise have been, |
nd in much shorter space of time. |
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-04-13
MANCHESTER ITEMS.

Roll OF HONOR for the week ending
April 10th:
High school (white): Masters W. S. Camp
bell, B. w. Nunnally, D. b. Winfree, X. G.
Stannard, II. 81. Winfree, r. V. Owen, R.
w. Broadnax, j. II. Ingram, B. P. Owen,
A. W. Moody, A. G. Reynolds, K. E. Walden,
B. K. Bransford, W. q. Ovens, and W. o.
Sims.
High school (colore6: j. Blackwell, H.
Brown, G. Crump, j. Trent, aud w. Wool
dridge.
TOWNSHIP BoAap.-This board was in ses-
sion on Saturday, arranging the affairs OF the
township. 1t was ordered that at The next
election all persons outside of the town of
Manchester should vote at Torrance's store.
PERsoNAL.-F. e. D. Farmer and E. Nor
riselte, of Henderson Lodge, and 81. R. Gary
and II. A. Jordan, Stuart Lodge, representa-
tives to Grand Lodge, I. 0. y. F., are eX-
pected to leave for Lynchburg this morning
Captain w. L. Fernald, collector Of inter-
nal revenue for this district, has left on
short trip to his former home.
COUNTY CoURT.-The April term OF the
County Court commences Monday. No jury
has been drawn, aud the business will be
unimportant. .
TIE SUpERvIsoRs.-The Board Of Superyi-
sors have adjourned. The amount charged
for rent of courthouse to the city is S25 per
month.
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Attempt 10 L Q fraud O fe-Insuran.
Company.

Attempt 10 L Q fraud O Eife-Insurnn. {
Company.
New York, April 11.-The Board o.
Health issued permit for the burial oI
Louisa Germs, who died at the house of DR.
Ernest Uplipg, On whose certificate the
burial permit was granted, and the inte-
ment followed soon. 1t vas subsequently,
rumored that UpliDg and Miss Germs had
been engaged, and that the doctor had taken
out Joint policy of $4,000 in the Mer-
chants Life Insurance Company, which
policy was to revert to him in case Of her
death, Suspicion followed that the death of
the Young woman was the result of malprac-
ticc, and an atii javit TO this effect was sao'
mitted to the coroner. He sent for uplins,
who expressed great sorrow Tor the death Of
the young woman, and insisted that she died
naturally.
The insurance company was not satisfied,
aud tue coroner ordered the body TO be ex-
humed. The result of the investigation was
that the disinterment took place to-day, and
the coffin was taken to the morgue and
opened, when, instead OF body, was found
nineteen bricks, wrapped in paper and kept
in place By laths. Charles Fink, the under
taker, has been arrested.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-04-13

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT, SATURDAY
Judge Ro. ". Hughes prestdtng.-Thef follow.
ing business was transacted:
In the matter of Lewis Colinsky, bank
rupt. Ordered that j. S. Armstrong, as
United States deputy marshal, and as such
custodian of certain property, hold the same
as heretofore directed subject to the orders
of this court. .
In the matter of Leander, bankrupt. Or.
der removing Emmet Crump. assignee, and
appointing William H. Alderaice in his stead.
In the matter Of James McCargo, bank
Iupt: Order removing A. B. Paris and +.
n. Read as assignees and supporting Thomas
E.. Watkins in his stead, and requiring said
Paris and Read to pay to Watkins $1,000,
with interest from August A. 1872, and re-
quiring also that said Paris and Read ap.
pear on the 1st day Of May to show cause why
they should not be proceeded against for con-
tempt ip not obeying the order OF the regis
ter instructing them TO make report and rem
der account.
In the matter Of John Allen, bankrupt i:
The assignee, w. II. Aiderdice, reported
sale of property amounting to S4Gi.70 net.
In the matter of Thomas r. Beazley,
bankrupt: The order confirming the sale of
land reported by assignee, which order was
made April 10, 1874, set aside and re-
yoked, and the said sale disapproved.
A petition of involuntary bankruptcy
was filed against the Old Dominion Coal
Company by its late superintendent, James
Edgar. The United States Marshal was or.
dered to take possession of the effects Of said
company, aud hold the same until the fur
ther order of the court. The petitioner files
claims against the company amounting to
about S12, 800. u
Gillian & Dunlop, of Petersburg, and
Andrew j. link, Of Bedford county, bank
rupts, were discharged.