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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
THE I,rMEDIATE FUTURE.

The time has come for action. Away with
platitndes, glittering generalities and high
sounding phrases. The country is in the
grasp of business death. The most devilish
forces have been set in operation. Jehovah
has sent seed time and harvest. The bow
upon the cloud daily symbolizes the cove
nant. The land is full If food. Omnipo-
tence can do no more. Still there is shrink
age, bankruptcy, idleness. poverty, ruin and
famine. Listen to the grinding curse
of bankrupt courts. Harkl Stately for
tunes are falling. Great Cod There is
an earthquake shaking down factories and
mills. Bend your ear close to the earth and
hear the footballs of tramps. A God favored
land is in mourning. See the poverty pinched
faces, skinny skeletons. sunken eyes. In
Gods name, hear the wall OF woe from ham,
let, cottage and hovel, and ask yourself, Oh,
freemen, why this state of things? Come,
be honest once. Speak out in meeting.
Mount the rostrum. Tell the truth and
shame the devil. Why these scenes in
America, where the people rule?
What is the blight? What is
the whitening curse? What fiend
with fang and claw has enveloped
the business OF this favored land in its wind
ing sheet and laid it out, stark and cold, on
its bier? Why this business funeral? Why
these bankrupt hearses, passing forever
along the highways of trade, going to the
boneyard where untold millions have been
buried beyond the possibility of resurrec-
ton? Why this eternal, monotonous falling
of the sheriff's hammer, beating funeral
marches to business graves? The people are
answering these questions. Their voice is
gathering volume, force and sweep, and is
becoming as resistless as ten thousand
Niagaras in demanding audience. Who shall
be able to hush their will? AS well talk
about claiming Jehovah's thlnderbolts or
lettering the pillows of the ocean when the
cyclone lashes them into fury and decorates
them with foam. The immediate future is
now grim as death and as haggard as despair.
Thirtyeight millions of people are to day
feeling of the national pulse, and it
is coming up. The bondholders and
shylocks had pretty nearly Slapped
the last ounce of the country's vital
iiy. But reaction is taking place. There
are grand symptoms of healthy change.
There is tonic In the measures of relief now
before congress. Hopes are reyiving. The
indications are that better days are dawning.
Contraction must cease. John Sherman
must not be the autocrat who, to advances
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
POLITICAL.
Meeting OF the Democratic County and
Township Committees-Call for a
Township Convention.

At meeting of the Marion county demo
cratic central committee. on Saturday, Janu-
airy -, 1878, the following appoTtionment of
delegates was made for the state convention,
to be held February 20, 1878, to-wlt:
Decatur township, 2 DELEGATES; Wayne, s.;
3; Franklin, 3; Perry, 2; Center tnorthl p;
Center lsouth,) 2. First ward. delegates
ee91d Il 81 s Ninth n Ff IN 81 S6'9
Eleventh, p Twelfth, 3; Thirteenth 3.
The apportionm emit is on the vote of Til
den and Hendricks, and the wards are the
old wards, as constituted at the time of that
vote.
The respective townships and wards will
meet in mass convention in their separate
Tuary Is, 1878, the townships in the after
noon and the wards in the evening of said
day.
The meetings will be published by the
several members of the county central COM
mittee in their precincts.
The county central committee adopted
the following resolutions:
We favor
R The immediate repeal of the resumption
q The restoration of the silver dollar.
J. The Withdrawal of the national bank
notes and the issue of an equal volume of
United States notes.
4. The making of United States notes legal
tender for all debts, public and private, except
whera coin has been expressly stipulated in
existing contracts.
5. Tue payment at or before maturity of all
United States bonds in exact accordance with
the law under which they were issued.
8. Equal taxation.
Z. The common school system Is the pallad-
ium OF our liberties and must he maintained
forever fire. C from sectarian influences.
s. 1t is the duty of the & government to exer-
els heaithful control within constitutional
limits over ali corpo atoms.
9. We deprecate all efforts to redress wrongs
by violations of law, and believe that through
the bal OF box must we look f1r justice.
10. We are in favor of restricting the power
and Jurisdiction of the federal courts.
IL. We are oppo.ed to all sum ptuary laws.
IL. We favor - metropolitan police for all
large cities.
Ii. We believe that through the benign In
fluence of the above measures business and in
dustry will revive, labor meet with employ
ment and its just reward, and prosperity and
plenty return to the homes of the people.
The democratic county convention OF
Marion county will meet on Saturday, June
1, 1878, at indianapolis, to select candidates
for the various county offices TO be voted for
at the October election.
George W. Winpenny was chosen commit
teeman for Washington township, to fill a
vacancy.
The county central committee will meet
Saturday, February 8, at half past 10 o'clock
a. IN.
JAMES III. FULLER, Chairman.
FRANCIS NJ. WRIGHT Secretary.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
Corn in Italy.

must not forget to mention three other
importantarticleso of nourlsbment-inn north
ern Italy, the pumpkin; in central Italy,
Indian corn, and in Corsica and among the
Apprentices, chestnuts- Pumpkins, cut into
slices and baked, are sold at the street cor
ners, and the inner kernels of their fat seeds
are as much relished by the boys of Venice
and Florence as peanuts are by ours. At the
cheap open air theaters, where children are
admitted for five cents, the gravel floor is
always covered with the hulls of pumpkin
seeds. The Italians know corn as well as we
do, and they would not learn much from
DIR. Hewitts proposed missionary corn res
taurant ct Paris, except some new varieties Il
cooking. They roast the green ears instead
OF boiling them, and their favorite dish.
polentl, is a sort of thick mush, or ''pone"
made OF cornmeal, salt and water. Italy is
the only country in Europe where an Amer
lean can get fried mush, and quite as good
AS at home. The chestnuts are very large,
such as we call Spanish chestnuts-and
exceedingly nutritious they are not only
roasted, but ground Into flour when dry and
baked as cakes. In Corsica they are a more
important crop than even wheat; in fact,
chestnuts are called Corsica bread bay
ard Taylor.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

employment. No one will question
the propriety of estimating the value of the
labor at $100 per day. aggregating the snug
SUM of 81, OOO, 900 per day, or for 800 working
days, 5000, ooO, 600. But this destruction of
labor wealth has been going on for the past
three years in sum totals equal to the past
year, which would give a loss to the country
of $2,700, 900, 900. But, what is still worse,
this terrible destruction Of the labor wealth
OF the country is increasing, and if, as we
have stated, there are row 3, 900 900 men out
of employment, it is safe to say that unless
contraction ceases there will be very soon
000, 900 in that condition, and the number
will steadily increase. The purpose of
the democratic party iss to remedy
these great wrongs. The speech OF Senator
| VOORHEES, is in that direction, and the fact is
everywhere recognized. We are confident
that laboring men in this hour of their peril,
brought upon them by radical legislation,
will not fail to see who are their earnest
friends, and shape their policy accordingly.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

his own personal, selfish and corrupt pur-
poses, can drag the Dusinsss of the country
down to a paupers grave. Hayes. upon
whose brow the Louisiana returning board
ieneffaceably stamped the burning disgrace
of fraud, will not be permitted, by veto, to
reverse the will Of the people. Bondholders
will no longer be permitted to rule the land.
There are glowing pencilings OF a
bright dawning. The winter OF the
nations discomfort is disappearing.
The immediate future is hopeful. 1t is pos
sible to save something from the wreck of
fortunes. It is possible to revive the indus
tries of the country. 1t is possible to sat
idle hands to work. 1t is possible to fill the
land with the music of machinery. 1t is
possible to make the homes of the poor COM
Portable. These possibilities the people are
now contemplating. Indiana is alive to these
issues; but there must be no hesitancy. The
battle cry is straight onward" The white
plumes of the leaders must be seen in the
thickeSt of the fight. There will be no arms
tice. No cessation of hostilities. The people
are bearing down upon citadel, fort and rifle
pit of their enemies. Redoubts and barricades
will be carried by storm, and only complete
victory will satisfy them. The imme-
diate future demands measures OF relief.
| The repeal of the obnoxious resumption bill
and the passage of the Bland bill are now in
order. The bondholders and Shylocks must
take fang and beak out of the hearts of the
people. The symbols of mourning must be
removed from the door knobs of factory and
mill The raven of contraction from PIuton.
ian blackness must cease its croaking. Life,
vigor and prosperity must be re-enthroned
Heaven is on the side of the people
and humanity pleads for better days
We like the outlook. The Sentinel
Is with the people. 1t floats grandly
grandly on the swelling tide oftruth. The PEG
pie are recognizing its manly utterances and
are extending their hands. We take them in
the fellowship of the right and tell them we
shall battle on until victory flashes along
the lines, until hope revives, prosperity
dawns, and the immediate future is full Of
| fr5iifiou
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
BOUNCED.
W. C. Harrington No Longer Secretary of the
Board of State House Commissioners.

On last Saturday the case of w. G. Tark-
ingtop, late Secretary of the Board of
State House Commissioners, underwent an
Investigation. with the following result:
The following resolutions were adopted at
the meeting of the board on Friday, Janu-
airy IL:
Whereas, 1t having been ascertained to the
satisfaction OF this board that w. G. TarkiDg-
ton, secretary thereof, has made communica-
ton to parties in the interest of competing
architects discreditable to an officer OF this
board and jeopardizlng the interests of the
state; therefore,
Resolved, That the appointment of w. c.
Harrington as secretary of this board be here
by revoked, and that he be dismissed from this
service from this date.
The following resolutions we're adopted
at the meeting of the board yesterday.
That this board see nothing In the papers
presented by Mr.. Harrington in his own be-
half, and the statement made by Mr.. Baker
that entities Mr.. Huntington TO a reversal of
the former decision of the board, which was
based upon letters, kilograms and admissions
which are not disproved; therefore
Resolved, That the former decision OF the
board is hereby confirmed in this BEHALF
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

THE Journal, which continually misrepre-
SCENTS the people of Indiana, and which is
known to be controlled by eastern Shylocks,
continues to advocate the veto power as a
means of reversing the will of the people as
expressed through their representatives in
congress. 1t says:
The vote In the senate on Wednesday on re-
ferrtng Senator Matthews resolution to the
Judiciary committee demonstrates very clearly
that the Bland bill can not pass the senate
over the presidents veto. pnero Is scarcely q
DOUBT that the president will veto the bill I'M
less 1t Is so amended as to increase the amount
of silver TO be coined into a dollar under its
4l2% grains of nfne-tenths silver an unlimited
Legal tender for dollar of ali public and pri-
yate Indebtedness.
It is possible that Hayes will veto the
Bland bill, and it is also possible that the
bill can not be passed over his veto, but we
conclude that Hayes, crime stained creature
that he is, will hesitate somewhata He will
not care to provoke further antagenisms.
he will not care to urge forward articles Of
impeachment. He will not care to exasper-
ate the will of the people to an extent that
shall make an investigation of his connection
with the Florida and Louisiana villainies
inevitable. That he is as guilty as J. Madi-
SON Wells there Is now little doubt. That
he Is presidential fraud is admitted by the
great majority of the people, and veto by
him will bring into still greater
odiousness the crimes by virtue OF
which he was lifted into power.
There is no mistaking the fact that Hayes is
in Office as the result OF series of the most
ignominious crimes that ever disgrsced any
civilized country, and the temper of the peo-
pie favors the exposure of the detestabIe
plot. III Hayes concludes to still further
arouse the indignation of the people by
.riyeting the letters that Shylceks have forged
for the purpose of enslaving the people no
consideration will be shown him. The peo-
pie demand straight out the dollar of the
contraet-the dollar as it was before the de-
monetizstion act swindled the people. The
demand Is honest to all parties concerned.
and Hayes viii do well to think several
tunes before be Interposes.a veto.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

THE New York Sun puts it thus: Mon
'treal and Chicago are the two cities most
conspicuous for failures, Boston and Phila-
@delphia for sneak thieves, Cincinnati and
and Richmond for elegant Americans of
african descent, New Orleans and Charles
~ton for cotton, San Francisco and ST. Louis
<for Cinnamon, Baltimore and Norfolk for
oysters. Cincinnati is also celebrated for
true goodness" And Indianapolis
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
Hand over the Horns.

Under the supervision of Mr. Jerry Collin S
Gilmore & COrdukes slaughtered yesterday 462
hogs in five hours, with two scrapers- Beat
this and take the horns.-Cincinnat Enquirer,
January IL, 1873.
Thursday, under the supervision of Mr..
Joseph III. Sheppard, Landers, Given It Co.
killed $50 hogs for John Fulkerson, Jr., that
averaged $40 pounds gross, in four hours and
FIVE minutes with two scrapers. Let Gill
more & Cordukes' house, Cincinnati, send
on the horns
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

THERE is growing demand in Germany
for various kinds of American machinery.
Neither the government nor native machin-
lists are favorabIy impressed with this, and
are making strenuous efforts to induce the
people and corporations to patronize home
industries. But as vet they have not been
able to change the tide of trade, which is
setting so strongly towards American shores.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
door were reopeped DE. Thurman Submit.

ted the following:
Whereas, The president of the senate has
laid before the senate a letter from the Italian
minister, stating that con memorative service
of his majesty the late King Victor Emanuel
will take place Tuesday in the church of st.
Aloyslus, and that seats i'll be kept for the
homo able members of tie United states sem
ate who would honor the ceremony by their
presence, therefore be it
Resolved, That when the senate adjourn Il
be to 80 p. m: tomorrow in order TO allow
the senators to attend the said commemora-
tive service.
Agreed to.
Adjourned.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

TIE impeachment OF Hayes and Wheeler
is engaging the attention OF the country.
These twins of fraud-the Chang and Eng of
perjury, linked indissolublY by crimes that
humiliate bumanity-should step down and
out The genius OF our institutions demands
it, and the United States are degraded in the
eyes of the world while they remain in
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
The Members of the Louisiana Return
ing Board ON Trial for Forgery and
SRfhar

New ORLEANS, Jan. 1S.-The members or
the returning board were arraigned to day
in the superior criminal court. An indict-
ment was read charging them with forgery
and altering the returns of Vernon parish.
The counsel made a motion to quash the
indictment, on the ground that the proceed
ings were irregular. 1t was overruled with.
out argument. The members of the board
then pleaded not guilty, and were admitted
to bail on the old bonds. The day Of the
trial has not been fixed.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
A banquet Given to X. p. Bland AT Leh--
nnOu, Missouri.

LEBANON, NO.. Jan. 20.-The citizens Of
Lebanon, irrespective of party. gave grand
banquet last night to Hon. Il. p. Bland,
author of the silver bill, now before con-
gress. Almost the entire community turned
out to do honor to our representative, and it
was the expressed determination TO continue
such representatives in congress until the
silver bill became q law.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

a. cosTBY Mormon temple is being built on
the summit of a mountain at Manti, Utah.
1T will take four years to complete it, and a
force of fire hundred raen are nov engaged
ON IL
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

In Wisconsin there are twenty million
sacres os arabic land which have neve< been
plowed. Much of it is splendid for meadow
land, and the remainder is good for farming.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

T#E-speech of Senator Voorhees, is having
N circulation in Indiana that exceeds all
precedent. Orders have poured upon the
Sentinel until they have reached 100000,
and are still coming. Let them come. The
Sentinel is prepared to supply the largest
possible demand.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

AK man who has one grain of sense can
not Gail to see that the silver dollar of 4l2'4
grams is to 'bs remonetized and made legal
ta-,1or
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

A YOU'VE man who has been in Texas a
year studied out a terse telegram to send
lhome to Auburn, New York. Els message
was, "Fatted calf fer one" His father un-
sderstood
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

WALLS, the colored ex-congressman from
ylorida, Gas been declared by g commission
alunatic, and Is to be confined in public
asvium
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

HAYES, though a presidential fraud. the
creation of perjury, will hardly dare to veto
the silver bill.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

DURIss the month of December Their
were 81 failures in Boston. The aggregated
liabilities were IS, 300; the assets, $3.50,
40
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

LAST year the school taxes of Ohio ver'
sIl 600. Ooo. For the accommodation OF tn,
pupils ace buildings were erected.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23

VIXEN Mile. Titiens the prima donna,
died, she measured ninety-eight inches
arc1nd the waist.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-01-23
XIV. CONGRESS-.
REGULAR SESSION
SENATE.

Further Discussion Of Mr.. Matthew'S
esoIutfOn 10 Pay the Principal and
Interest OF Bonds i'm SiIver-A Number
of Bills introduced and Referred.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-08

THE development of sentiment
In the diiettanti and anti.corrup-
tIon leaders OF the Republican
party is quite interesting, Of late.
Take the attitude of George Will
liam Curtis, the editor of Harpers'
Weekly, for instance. Four weeks
ago this elegant exponent Of super
fine Republican sentiment thought
that If Grant were nominated by
the Republican party the disinte-
grafton of that organization was
Inevitable. Presto! change! The
last number of Hdrpers' Weekly
which arrived in Los Angeles still
thinks that Grant would be q bad
candidate, hut that Grant, as q
practical dictator, is preferable to
the ascendancy of the communistic
element in the United States. The
elegant Curtis puts the proposition
thus: "If, indeed, we have come
ito the end of the government and
"the death struggle of society, let
"us all unite and secure the order
"that reigned in Warsaw and de-
"mand a military dictatorship as
"better than anarchy" This is q
humiliating confession from one Of
the organs Of the once powerful
Republican party!
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-08

Our local columns yesterday
contained two gratifying announce
msnts. Capt. Roberts inform ed
us that the Los Angeles Company's
we'll at the Sespe may at any mo-
ment turn out to be veritable
petr0lenm bonanza. From Mr.. r.
G. Mcpherson we learn that conf
dsnce in the San Fernando oil re-
gion is 40 strong that capitalists in
San Francisco have entered into an
engagement TO put up new refin-
cry. We confess that it is a source
OF keen regret to us that this refin-
cry Is not to be located in this city.
II the Judgment of all the experts
who have examined the San Fer
i,nnslo region. including the emil
neut geoiogist, Prof. Cunning, may
bs relied upon. that section is as
rsdolent OF petroleum as were ever
Vsnaugo and Butler counties, in
Penusylvania. The manipulation
Of the crude oils of such q district
would be big thing for any city.
Much ri the later growth Of Cleve-
land was entirely owing to the es-
fablishment in that city of oil re.
rlnerfes. They have been large
f1stor, also. In the wealth Of Phila-
deIphiA and Pittsburgh. They are,
shove alI. manufacturing indus
tries. which are what this section
ssis beyond anything else. Our
[Angs groves, vineyards. hocks
"a herds are sure to expand and
o1r6oor. What we require 10 .
m operative class.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-08

POSTMASTER GENERAL KEY has
arrived in san Francisco, AMI his
trip, as marked out. includes Los
Angeles. We shall be glad to see
Mr.. Key, especially US he has quit
making the peculiar speeches
which distinguished his swing
around the circle with Mr.. Hayes,
one year ago. In that pageant he
played the erring Southern sinner
with infinite e bad taste, and to the
disgust Of the mass of the Ameri-
can people. AS disorganizsr Of
the Southern Democracy, Mr.. Key
has not proved success. As q
man and a tourist we shall be
glad to see him In the Orange
City.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-09-08

THE editor of the AnaheIm Ga.
zette Is busying him- self with the
labor of creating u tempest In tea
pot, the whole sgopy aud effort
being founded on the assumption
that We said that Anaheim, In
common with NEARLY all towns in
California just now, 10 dull. San
Francisco herself has not been an
exception to- THIS rule, aud even in
Los Angeles We have claimed no
exemption from the common fate.
We feel perfectly certain that no
s.nsibie resident of Auaheim will
put wrong construction on our
perfectly good-humored and inuo-
cent remarks, and Ii the editor of
the Gazette shall continue to be
agitated, while We shall deplore the
event, in view of our perfect ina
billty to prevent it. We shall have
to be resigned.