The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-04-28

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never likely be distanced by any "new tangled
ballot-box."
SENATOR BAYARD is not accounted wealthy
man. His townsfolks think he is worth, per.
haps. 100000. He has income, they say,
from his Investments, his salary Senator,
his attorneyship of the Philadelphia, Will
miDgton and Baltimore Railroad, and his law
| practice in vacation-of about s20,OC0.
NEW steel works are to be erected in Chi.
cago at a cost, including seventy-fiye acres of
! land, Of 81 5000 0. They are to be completed
| within year. and will consist of four blast
| furnaces, Bessemer converting works and
steel rails. They will employ 1000 men, con-
sumo $4,000 tons of ore yearly, and turn out
| $1,000 tons of rails.
SENATOR LOGAN is quoted By the Journal, Of
Chicago, as saying in that city, in reference to
a report of his candidacy for Vice President,
that whenever party wants to carefully
shelve man, when he is no more use TO IT,
| they generally nominate him for Vice Presi-
dent. L am yet the harness worker in
the Republican ranks, and 1 am well satisfied
30 remain In the United States Senate"
THERE was quite a breeze in Atlanta, Ca,
the other day, over news OF the finding in the
Ocoochie Valley, White County, of nuggets of
pure gold, weighing all the way from five
pennyweights to 40 pennyweights. The gold
it seems, Is found in the vegetable garden of a
farmer who, with two hands, at an expense OF
$50, took out of the garden four pounds OF pure
ore, or $50 pennyweights.
THE Charleston News says that in South
Carolina farming Is being more extensively,
industrIously and intelligently conducted
than ever before known by the Oldest inhabi-
tants. Men are working with all their might
and with cheerfuIness, thereby raising agri-
culture from the previous status of an
isolated and ploddlng calling to that of a live,
hopeful business, in which an enlightened
aud economical consideration is given TO sur
roundings and their bearings.
THE late Henry Vincent, the English lee
turer, once related to a correspondent of the
Troy Times that he was driving with John
| Bright when the news of Abraham Llncoln's
death was told them by man who stopped
| their carriage by the wayside for that pur-
pose. Neither of the two Englishmen spoke
word In response. They drove on in utter ST.
lence; and bye-aud bye, when each looked up
at the others face, the eyes of both were full
| of tears.
THE Elkhart Democrat says: "Governor
Hendricks is daily gaining in strength, and
wnen the Cincinnati Convention is held he
pected. The Tilden boom is not increasing,
and will probably die out entirely before the
election, at least efectually. If the COnven-
will only use a little Judgment and nominate
| Hendricks, man whom all Democrats, and
large number of Republicans, would be too
! glad to vote for, he could be elected against
any man the Republicans can put up"
THE first annual report ofthe Society for the
Of ODD nrf,, hi,
contains some figures that will startle the
extremists who are skeptical about the success
of men who began work on the principle that
half loaf is better than nc bread. More than
| 1900 pledges have been secured through the
soclety's efforts, and One-fourth of these bound
the signers to total abstinence. Beyond this,
| however, 1000 men have pledged themselves
not to drink during business hours, and 1900
| agreed not to s'stand treat" be treated.
SUICIDES by animals are not uncommon. An
old collie in Caithness, troubled with the in
hrmities of age, including deafness and the
loss of teeth, committed suicide by drowning.
A Newfoundland dog had his feelings wound.
ed by being scolded. Soon after he found
alive, but with his head partly submerged in
ditch. He was dragged out; but he refused to
eat or drink, and before long he was found In
the same ditch dead. Captive birds some
times poison themselves, apparently prefer
ring death to confinement. The American
stag or deer commits suicide sometimes when
seized or attacked by the g!utton, by precipi-
tating itself against trees.
A WRITER in Chambers Journal tells of
game cock who was seemingly beloved by
several hens. He was boss of the poultry yard,
but one morning he found more than his
match, and was terribly bruised. His partic-
ular hens went one by one, and then alto
gether, to him, looking upon him with all the
contempt they could display. They pecked at
him, and at length his favorite went straight
to him and nearly ruined mis- eyesight. An
old brown hen then went to the rescue, and
standing before the PROSTATE bird, sheltered
him with her wings. Some weeks afterward
the game cock died. The old brown hen soon
afterward died on the spot where the cock lay
buried. The writer thinks it is proof that
hens love.
AT the Syracuse Convention, in the Kelly
branch of the Democracy, discussion
as to the expediency of an electoral ticket. Mr.
Dorsheimer called attention to the fact that 1t
might be requisite to have only set OF
Presidential electors in the field; that If such
a candidate as Horatio Seymour (cheers) is
nominated, we would not want two Presiden-
tial tickets. He would be In favor of allowing
the State Committee to call another Conven-
ton, and thus name a Presidential ticket, if it
was required. But If we have two Presidential
tickets in the field we can not come together.
There is nothing, he said to keep us apart If
there is nominated Seymour, a Bayard or
Hendricks. [Cheers.
THE Courier Journal says official patronage
has grown most powerful in every grade OF
| political life, and its influence has been most
pernIcious. The public service has been de-
graded; offices have been filled with lncompe.
tent men; funds have been diverted from
| their legitimate channels; the force of the law
has been weakened, and the burden of taxa
ton has been increased because men with
| personal ambitions and with blunted con-
sciences have used the power Office brings to
perpetuate their official existence. No thought
full man is blind to danger which arises from
this condition of affairs. The degradation of
the civil service has alarmed thinking men in
each party, aud there are ominous signs of the
decay of public virtue and a notable tendency
/ taward decentralization