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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1882-02-25

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The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1882-02-25

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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
Death of william q. churchman.

Our readers will be startled this morning
to learn that Mr. William III. Churchman.
brother of the well-known banker, Francis
NJ. Churchman, Esq, dropped dead last
night at 10 O'Clock, at the residence of the
latter, situated on the well-known Beech
Grove farm. six miles sou .heas. of the
city. The cause of his sudden death
was rupture of the heart. Mr.. Church
man was we'll known in this city, and, in
deed, throughout the State, having been for
many years the efficient Superintendent of
the State Institute for the Blind, located in
this city.
Previous to his taking charge of the Asy-
lam here he had been at various periods of
his life Superintendent of Similar institu-
tons in other States. He was born in Balti-
more, Md, in 1918. As a pupil of the
Pennsylvania Institution for the
Blind he acquired a good math-
ematical education and also attained
proficiency In music. In 1910 he became
an assistant teacher of music and other
branches in the Ohio Institution for the
Blind at Columbus. In 1914 he was APP
pointed Principal of the Tennessee Institu-
ton for the Blind. He resigned after two
years service in consequence OF i'll health.
and in 1917 was chosen Superintendent of
the Indiana Institution. over which he pre-
sided until 1858. The ensuing year
he established a'young ladies' seminary at
Laporte, Ind, which after little more than
year of successful progress was broken up
by the destruction of the buildings by fire.
He then moved 10 GAINESVILLE, Wis, and
took charge of the Institute for the
Blind of that State. Some years later
he was recalled 10 the Superintendency
of the Asylum in this city. He
resigned the position about three yearssince.
Although nature had deprived Mr.. Church
man of eye-sght, yet he made abundant
compensation in other directions. He was
gentleman of large abilities and varied at
tainmentS. Large hearted, kinG and
gentlemanly in his demeanor he
was very popular and much beloved among
those who enjoyed his acquaintance and
knew him best. His knowledge of men and
books was extensive, and to this he added
rare conversational powers. OF the several
gentlemen who have superintendent our
State Institution since its foundation Mr..
Churchman was among the best. Being
blind himself he had the sympathetic heart
for those similarly affected. At the same
time the affection did not interfere with the
energetic and successful management of the
duties and affairs of the position.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24

members having seen thousands of little
frogs in the Court House yard and streets of
a town in Illinois, when he was a boy. APP
pearing just after storm.-Cambridge
Citizen.
Professor Morton and John Masters of
Brookville, attempted to cross Duck Creek
at Metamcrs. They missed the ford, the
horse mired in the Quickssnd, Masters got
out of the buggy to assist the horse, when
the horse fell on him and be was nearly
drowned before he was rescued. The horse
was drowned and the buggy badly damaged.
-Connersville Examiner.
The curious specimen of fish taken from
the Wabash River a few days ago and pre-
scented 10 Major McFadden has been on ex-
hibition at the High School for a few days
and has attracted much attention. The fish
is a native OF large rivers, and it is supposed
10 have worked its way from the Mississippi
River up TO this place. The common name
of this fish is shoyel-nosed sturgeon, and in
dlcates the striking feature of the fish, as
also does the Dinomial scientific name,
Scaphiry nchops platyrhyncbus, which this
hsh unwittngiy sports. and which, rem
dered in English. means, literally, 1.-The
broad nosed. shovel-nosed." The whole
body of this fish is rough with small
running from head to tail. The doTsal and
anal fms are set back near the tail; the
mouth is sucker-like, toothless and with
protusble lips and is set four inches back
from the end of the snout. As in other
surgeons, there are four long barbels or
feelers in front of the mouth, fitting it. as
does its entire structure. for groyeliDg life
on the bottoms of rivers and lakes.-Logans.
port Journal.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
AMENDING TIE CONS r1TUT1oN.

To change the fundamental law of great
commonwealth is always regarded as a seri-
Gus matter by thoughtful people-but when
the proposition to change the Constitution
imperils rights hitherto unquestioned, in
terests hitherto protected and guaranteed,
and business enterprises long established
and prosperous, the Importance of investi-
cation and discussion is self-evident At the
start the question arises. and its command
ing in its prominence, Do the people want
such an amendment to the Constitution? a
Republican Legislature, without instruction
from the people, has made it
necessary for the people to
answer that question. An election occurs
in November. A Legislature is to be elected.
1t is the right and the duty OF the people to
make known to their representatives their
will upon subject which citizens of all
parties admit is of vital consequence. If
the people elect representatives who are in
favor of amending the Constitution, legisla-
ton in that direction will proceed. If rep
resentatives are elected who are opposed to
amending tine Constitution the whole mat
ter will be set at rest, and it will be done by
the people at the ballot box. The sooner the
question is settled the better it will be for
the State, and since Republican Legislature
has thrust the issue into the campaign, the
Democratic party is anxious that the peo-
pie shall vote upon it as often as opportunity
offers. The Democratic party has honest
convictions. 1t is ready to declare them,
and instead of seeking to debar the people
from expressing their will, it boldly asserts
the right of the people to be heard. accepts
the issue made by the Republican Legisla-
ture, and urges the people to pass upon it.
The Democratic patty is loyal to the will OF
the people. If, with all the facts before
them, the people of Indiana declare for
prohibition, that settles it. Meaowh lie, the
Democratic party, upon questions involving
rights and interests of unquestioned i'm
portance. demands the m, st thorough and
thoughtful investigation and the clear
presentation of all the facts bearing upon
the subject.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
THE STATE.

There will be larger acreage of corn
planted this year than usual in this County.
-Petersburgh Press.
Abraham 'Levebaugh, an old citizen OF
Washington, committed suicide Tuesday by
hanging himself with a halter in hts stable.
Bill Arnold and Andrew Tucker, of Rush
County. have sued the Cincinnati Enquirer
for 81 900 each. for libel, in connecting their
names with Oscar Garrett and his eonfeder-
ates.
The City Council of Seymour has passed
an ordinance for the purchase. for 80. 500. OF
six and one-haif acres OF fine Woodland adj
jacent to that city, which Is TO be converted
into public park.
Evansville is now connected by telephone
with over thirty towns in Indiana, Kentucky
and Illinois Two new points, Troy and
Tell City, we're added last Monday, and the
connection with Cannelton has been estab
lished since.
Snakes and things are becoming com
mon in this section. Last Sunday a
man at Richmond ran into mass meet.
ing of snakes at Thistlewaites pond
and killed twenty-seven of them with a
club. On last Friday Dan Port reports hay
ing found the woods between Dublin and
Bentonville thickly strewn with fish from
one to two inches in length. The fish We're
exhibited and looked like sinners with big
heads. The supposition is that they fell
from the clouds. This theory is possibly q
good one, as the writer OF this distinctly re-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
CHINESE DRO wNED.

a Barge Containing Thirty-six Coolies Cap
sized and All Are Reported Drowned
Mutiny Among 500 on Board the Steamer.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.-A report has
just been received at the Coroner's office
from Macondray & Co., consignees of the
steamer Altenower, now lying in quarantine
with Chinese passengers that barge con-
tanning thirty-six Cinnamon taken with the
smallpox, destined for the Pest House,
capsized and all were drowned. Another
report is that only portion of those in the
barge were lost and that a serious mutiny
has broken out among the 500 Chinese re-
manning Oh the steamer. Nothing definite
has yet been ascertained.
Nothing definite Is vet obtairable regard
ing the Altenower affair at the Health Office.
1t is stated two boats were in tow of the
Launch. One capsized and about twenty
lives were lost. Another report brings the
number down TO six or seven. The Chief
of Police has ordered a squad of officers to
the ship to assist in maintaining order. The
information is that the Chinese, excited by
the loss of their countrymeD, refuse to
longer submit to any discipline, but are not
reported as dangerous
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.-Further reports
from the steamer Altenower show that all the
Chinese upset in the barge were saved with
one exception, and taken TO the Pest House
Those remaining on board assaulted the
ships doctor, who took refuge below. The
Chinese had control of the ship for awhile,
but the arrival of the quarantine officers
and demonstration By the harbOr police
restored comparative order, though the
coolies are still in q bad humor and refuse
to allow the doctors to 60 among them to
look for infected persons.
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country. We have Government schools to
military and naval officers,
and the moment these fledglings leave their
nests they assume aristocratic airs, and de-
port themselves as a superior race of human
beings, and there are always fools enough
hanging round to aid them in their
efforts at self-exaltation. Congress by
creating Department of Agriculture places
that interest on level with the Army and
the Navy. The farm has a representative at
the Council Board of the Government.
When the Secretary of War refers to the
crop of Indian wars, the Secretary of Agri-
culture may prudently speak of the crop of
Indian corn. When the Jack-tar Secretary of
the Navy calls the attention OF the President
to the worn out condition of his ships the
Secretary Of Agriculture can press home tn.
argument that unless something is done TO
preserve the forests of America ship build
ing will cease. If the right sort of a man is
selected by the President for Secretary of
Agriculture a ID money enough is appropri-
ated to obtain correct information and pub
lish it in a form that it can reach the farm-
ers of America, agriculture will be indef-
nitely benefited. By all means let us have
the Department of Agriculture.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
Killed bya Drunken Relative.

NEwcoMERsTOwg. Ohio, May 1S.-A
Shocking saloon murder occurred at Denni-
son, few miles east of here. last night.
which has caused the most intense excite
ment Mr.. and Mrs John Robinson, keeper
of q saloon in DenDison. and Mr. Steve Ryan,
Mrs. Robinson's brother-in-law. came in
with a friend named Sterling and demanded
whisky. The demand not being complied
with. Ryan then called for beer. and after
drinking a glass began TO abuse Mrs. Robin
son and drew his revolver to shoot. Mrs.
Robinson being a large, robust woman,
Iseized the revolver and took it from Ryan,
whereupon be. Infatuated by drink, dealt her
a terrible blow, and at the same time
knocked the counter over against her, crush
ing her against tie wall. Ryan then left,
and Mrs Robinson sat down in a chair, and
began to spit blood. She told her husband
to have Ryan arrested, for she was going to
die, and scarcely had she uttered the last
word of the sentence. when she dropped to
the floor corpse. AS soon as the news
spread through the town that she had been
killed, the greatest excitement prevailed,
and RYAN was Immediately arrested. He
remarked when he heard of her death, that
be was glad of IT. He - now secure.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
DEMOCRATIC srArE CONVENTION
Call of the Central Committee.

INDIANAPOLIS, May is. 1882.
The voters of Indiana, regardless of past
political affiliations, who are DESTROYS of CO.
operating with the Democracy in the sup
port of its principles and nominees, are in
itevd to participate in the meetings called
throughout the State for the purpose of Sc
lecting representatives to attend Delegate
Convention, to be held in the city Of Indi-
annapolis, Wednesday, August 2 1882, for
the purpose OF adopting platform of pnn-
ciples and the nomination of candidates to
Unsupported for the following offices: Three
Judges of the Supreme Court Secretary OF
State, Auditor of State. Treasurer of State,
Clerk of the Supreme Court, Attorney Gen.
eral, Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The ratio of representation will be one
delegate for each 200 votes cast for Hancock
and English, November, 1880. and one dele
gate for each fraction OF 100 or over, as fol-
lows:
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Farmers stitute

ST. Louis, Nav IS- b F. m rs Insti-
tnte meetins of tn = enta Congress
sional District of IllinD., held under the
an pice> of the state B ,aro of Agric Il'ure,
which as bee in session BellevIile the
p st two uays, adopted seri' of res buttons
indorSing the proj-c's for the improvement
of the Mississippi River, the Construction of
the Hennepin Canal and t water course
across the lsthmus of Florida, as of great
commercial importance, granting high
praise to Captain James B, Elds, but eX-
pressing the belief that his plans will not
alone accomplish the EN- I desired, and there
fore ask that the plans of Captain Cowden
and others receive careful attention, heartily
indorsing the ecent action of Congress in
making a partial appropriation for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi River, and ex-
pressing the opinson this improvement Will
result in great benefit to both producer and
consumer everywhere and add greatly TO
the development of the resources of the Ma
ton.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24

IT is now stated that Guiteau will hold no
more levees in the Washington Jail. From
100 to $50 visitors have been daily admitted
to Guiteau's parlors, the levee business be-
coming so much feature of Guiteau's prison
life that Senator Hawley introduced reso-
luton instructing the Senate Committee of
the District of Columbia to inquire into the
managementof the Washington Jail. The
fact that the festivities at the Jail, upon
a scale almost equal to those at the White
House, was continually eliciting remarks
anything but complimentary to the Repub-
lican party accounts for Senator Hawley's
resolution
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24

THE Chicago Tribune is anxious to show
that somebody conspired to ruin Blaine,
and for that purpose his guano diplomacy
was investigated. The Tribune says that
1.-The Sh pherd scheme was recognized from
the start as wild, harum-scarum affair,
which vas not worthy of Congressional at
to some information that would warrant
censure of Blaines foreign policy, if not an
aspersion of his personal motives" Unjust
be confessed, if the purpose of the investi
CATION was to crush Blaine, those who got it
up have reason for the most pronounced
graduation, for Blaine is now as politically
dead as he will DE a thousand years hence
He is embalmed in guano.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24

Don CANE RON, who bosses the Stalwar
wing of the Republican party in Pennsyl-
vania. in recent address to his clan In
Convention said: II would vote for an OK
if he were the nominee of my party" Sew
eral asses had been nominated, and Don's
attention having been called to the fact, he
at once silenced the braying By saying: 81
would vote for an OK or an ass, dog or half
breed, if either were the nominee OF my
party" This sounded like compromise,
bat the Stalwart oxen and asses bore off all
the prizes of that Convention.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CoNvEN.
TON

By vote of the Democratic Central Com
mittee, in sessi)a yesterday at the Grand
Hotel, the Democratic State Convention will
be held in English's Opera House, in Indi-
annapolis. on " Wednesday, August 3 The
meeing Of the Committee was entirely har-
moniOus, the following members being pres
ent: J. b. B-mis, U. o. SteaIey, w. H. d.
Hunter, William C. Forty, ]. NJ. Cropsey,
Ben Ravens (for J. jump, a. B. Pitzer, A.
b. Champion, w. ]. Hilligass, C. A. Munson,
H. H. Francis, w. H. English, Chairman,
and James III. Rice, Secretary. There were
also in attendance mum Der of distinguished
Democrats from various portions OF the
State-Hons. T. A. Hendricks, Franklin
Landers, David Turpie, John Williams,
Isaac P. Gray, William Fleming, John b.
StOIl, w. r. Meyers, John Z. Lamb, A.
Seidensticker, b. Schwitzer, NJ. V. B.
Spencer, A. j. Kelly, ]. J. Cooper, s P.
SheeTin, +. Il. Burns, w. II. Jacks, Dan F.
Mustard, Frank Trissell, Colonel Farrar,
Platt J. Wise, Crawford Fairbanks, J. NJ
Sankey, 8. r. Hamell. William Cooper,
Willis G. Neff A. 3. Compton, Josiah Gwin,
William Peck, DIR. A. NJ. Vickery, J. II.
Drake, r. II. Hunt, B. S. Sutton, DIR. Van
Valzah, Chester - Faulkner, A. J. Howard
Captain John w. Dodd, I,rct@ssor Smart
and others.
number of ringing speeches were made
the drift Of the arguments being that the
Democratic party shouldinsIst upon sharp,
incisiye, aggressive campaign. The central
idea was that the Republican party has
forced upon the State an issue which the
Democratic party will not dodge. No action
was taken upon The question OF prohibition,
but the sentiment was that the Democratic
party is uncompromisingly opposed to that
fanatical idea, and will vote against it, But
above all and over all, theidea was expressed
that the people should decide the question,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24

The Republican organs IN this city and
throughout this Congressional District will
not discuss in a manly and genteel manner
the points at issue in the approaching can
vass. They have abandoned issues and gone
into personalities and mean, clubbing inu-
endoes. As Myron w. Reed SAID in recent
sermon, the party has no principles; it is
simply after the offices. Even the cohesive
power Of public plumber does not work with
its accustomed smoothness, and so they are
euarreling among themselves and lying
about their opponents.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
THE DEPARTMENT OF AoRICUL.

FURE.
The indications now are that the Cabinet
of the President of the United States is to
have added to it q Secretary of Agriculture.
This new Cabinet official is to be practical
ayr culturist-a farmer in the true sense of
the term. The Department will have three
Bureaus to start with-the Bureau of Agri-
cultural Products. the Bureau of Animal
Industry and the Bureau of Lands and
Statistics. The Bureau of Agricultural Pro-
ducts will include botany, chemistry and
entomology, the latter being that part of
zoology which treats of insects. The Bureau
of Animal Industry will be in charge of a
veterinary surgeon, and will devote its atten-
ton to matters relating to domestic animals.
their number, condition and value. and will
also pay special attention to the diseases of
animals and the improvement of breeds.
The Bureau of Lands and Statistics will at
tend to all matters relating to lands, their
soils, their suitability for certain crops,
stock raising. ETC.. as also the collection of
labor and agricultural statistics, crop re-
ports, etc, and it will also report upon mat
ters relating TO forestry, the timber supply,
and the means of preserving the forests of
the country. We predict for the
Department of Agriculture great pop
ularity, IL prudently conducted:
We like t.Ibecsuse in some sense it digni-
fies agriculture. The departments of the
Government, as they now exist, are schools
for the cultivation of disgusting sEobbery,
particularly the War, Navy and State De-
partmenb. Ths Agricultural Department
ought to b. Democratic. 1t will represent
the greatest and grandest interests of the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1882-05-24
Distressing Accident.

NEwcoMERsTowN, O., May lS-The people
of this place were wrought mp to a high
pitch of excitement by the drowning of
Isaac Gardner and three of bis daughters in
the Tuscsrawas River, two miles west of
Port Washington. at HIPS Ford. The man
attempted TO ford the river, which is pretty
high. There were seven persons in the
wagon-the father, two sons and four
da ghterS. The two boys swan out, and
rescued one If the girls by means of skiff,
One of the horses was drowned. None OF
The bodies are yet recovered.