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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
STEALING THE PUBLIC LANDS.

STEALING THE PUBLIC LANDS.
Blaine wrote so many letters that his va
rious enterprises and speculstions in all
sorts of corruption were easily tracked to
him by these silent witnesses. The vast major
ity Of this class, of which Blaine is colossal
type, are too sharp to put their questionable
modes on paper. 1t is only occasionally that
they can be caught. Here, however,
is a case in point, and it involves General
Logan and one or two other prominent Re-
publicans. A gentleman writes to the New
York Times as follows: "What appears in
your columns from time to time regarding
the spoliation of the public lands by the
land sharks must commend itself to
the approving judgment OF all right
minded men. When l was in Lon
don, over year ago, gentle
man living in Brooklyn by the name Of
Conway offered to sell me 1,O00, 900 acers in
New Mexico owned by syndicate composed
of Henry N. Atkinson, United States Sur
Veyor; a man by the name of Casey, and
others, including General John A. Logan.
He showed me letters of Mr.. Atkinson in
proof of his authority, and, in fact, gave me
the letters to examine at my leisure. After
General Logan's nomination Conway sent q
messenger to me in Washington to get the
Atkinson letters. Now l see that he did so
in order to save Logan from the possible en-
barrassment of theri public use. The land is
situated in the American Valley, in New
Mexico, and is one of the best grazing
tracts in the Territory. ALI OF it was
not claimed to be private property,
but only about $4,000 acres, procured
by the syndicate by means of the purchase
of soldiers rights. These were locations
controlling the water and the water con-
trolled the balance to the extent of a mill
lion acres, all of which was offered for sale,
including the cattle thereon. These facts
Mr.. Conway will not deny unless he denies
the truth. He also sold to syndicate in
London, composed OF Frederick Fuller,
ESQ.,, Henry AIlbutt, Esq, the Hon. Edward
r. Gray, and George H. Phillpotts the son
of the eminent English Bishop, and one or
two parties in Edinburgh, another large
tract of q million acres, and has made
large fortune by the operation, so it is said.
Whether he consummated the sale of the
Logan Atkinson land is more than | know,
though 1 understand he did sell it in Lon.
don
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
CURRENT THOUGHT AND OPINION.

THE defeated despair of the Republic; the
victors dream of an incoming golden age.
Both speak as though the Nation had under
gone some great crisis, and persisted or sur
vived in the stress of a tempest Northwest
ern Christian Advocate on Election Day"
Our country at the present time, practi-
cally controlling the silver product of the
world. has ample time to secure the advan-
tages which are thus bestowed, and insugu-
rate financial policy which must in the
end be adopted by all the commercial ma
tons Of the earth.-Mining Review.
IF prices go up at any time between August
and the holidays, the farmer gets the bulk of
the benefit. An advance after the holidays
is just as sure to react to the profit of eleva-
tor owners and spectators, with the few
farmers who have means and nerve enough
to hold their grsin.-Northwestern Miller.
BREDDERNl 70 pasture hain't got muffin
ter say agin SIGH of de flock as mistakes de
chu'oh TO sleepin' kear, an drops OFF inter
de arms er Morphine, but de gemmen OBJ de
finance hermittee am hereby 'struced dat no
wunder de sheep er dis fole am titled to
hedge on de revenoo Observation-Disclosures, n.
Y, Gazette.
AT one OF the fashionable clubs up town
this Englishry has been carried so far that
members use British coins at their cards and
other games, compute their accounts in
English money, aud scornfully ignore any
reference to dollars and cents as something
too coarse to be olerated.-Ingomar in
Pittsburg Dispatch on the "Anglomauia in
New York City"
THE London exchanges are worked up over
the same grievance that has vexed the pious
souls OF the members OF the stock aud grain
exchanges in this country. That grievance
is the bucket-shoP. 1t is a very bad thing
in the opinion of the members OF the great
exchanges that the public should have facili-
ties for gsmbIiDg-outside of their own in
situations -Pttsburg Dispatch.
THEY are carried erywhere, and they
take species of civilization with them.
They have made napkins known, aud Sc
cured their popularity. They keep in de-
licious Autter the virginia. hearts OF the girl
walters at the hotels, and in this are intro
ducing the gentle sentiments in the remoter
areas of settlement.-F. B. Wilkie in Chicago
Times on "The Travelling Salesman
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION.

Three Men Killed at the Works and Six
Killed Place Ten Miles Away by the
Shock.
READING. Pa. Nov. 6-The dynamite works of
II. w. Sunny & Co, thre--quarters of a mile from
stouchburg. village OF 500 inhabitants, blew up
this afternoon. shaking up the country for dis
lance of twenty mills. The WORKS consisted OF
five frame buildings. the timbers OF which were
sent flying in all directions nothing remaining but
the foundations Ali the men in the hui. dings
killed, so the cause of the explosion can never be
KIN ,wD. The names OF the killed are Frank
StatZ. married, aged thirty. Frank Clapp, twenty
one, single. and Joseph Kraus, aged twenty i've,
single, The windows were broken in many
houses in 6touchburg; people were knocked off
their feet, and mirrors and pictures we're shaken
from the walls. church and several
houses were unroofed- The victims literally
blown to atoms At RoNesonia, ten miles
from Stouchburg, number OF mssons
were working at the bottom OF Furgson & Co.'S.
furnace stack, refining 1t with friedrich. The
stack was probably one hundred feet high. aud
the work was nearly completed. Ten, some say
fifteen. men were In the stack, some al the bot
tom ana Others on the scaFolding above. As the
and there was q rumbling NOISE, folio 1ed i'm
mediately by great deluge OF brick, completely
burying six men at the bottom OF the stack. II
they were not instantly killed, they will
be burned to death astbe sacfolding is burning
and they can not be reached. The names OF the
buried men are John Nenreich. Henry Spangle.
Henry Stott Fred Foreman, David Parson and
The excitement is intense. Crowds OF people, IN
Guiding the wives and children OF the unfortunate
men, are surrounding the stack. The loss TO the
furnace can not be estimated to night,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12

QUEER EFFECT OF CANNON BALLS
II ball takes off ones head the Job is
probably 80 neatly and hurriedly done that
it is absolutely impossible to think. When
other parts of the body have been struck the
survivor sometimes leaves a record. We get
a case in point from the experience of a
distinguished French gentleman, N. Bouti-
bouse, who served in Napcieon's army at the
battle of Wagram. He was in the heat of
the fray; the ranks around him had been
terribly thinned by shot and at sunset he
was nearly isolated. While reIoadlng his
musket he was shot down by cannon. ball.
His impression was that the ball had passed
through his legs below his knees, completely
severiDg them, for he suddenly sank down,
shortened, as he believed, to the extent of
about q foot in measurement. The
trunk OF the body fell back
ward on the ground, and the mans
senses were parslyzed by the shock.
Thus he lay, motionless, among the wounded
and dead all night, not daring to move, when
consciousness partially returned, lest the loss
of blood should be fatally increased. That
he felt no pain he attributed to the stunning
effect OF the shock on his nervous system,
and he was still mentally too numbed to be
able to reason as to why he had not bled to
death. At early dawn he was aroused by
one of the medical staff, who came round to
help the wounded. whats the matter
with you, my good fellow?" said the Sur
geen. "Ah, touch me tenderly, Doctor" re-
piled NJ. Courthouse; q cannon ball has car
ried off my legs" The Surgeon examined
the limbs referred to, and then, giving
him a good shake, said, with a loud
laugh: sect up with you; there's
nothing the matter with your legs"
NJ. Courthouse sprang up in utter astonish-
ment and stood firmly on the legs which
he had thought lost forever. 81 felt more
thankful" said he, "thsn had ever felt in
the whole course Of my life before. 1 had
not wound about me. l had indeed been
shot down by an immense cannon ball. but
| instead of passing through my legs, as 1
| firmly believed it had, the ball had passed
under my feet and had plowed hole in the
earth beneath at least loot in depth, into
which my feet suddenly sank, giving me the
idea that I had been thus shortened by the
loss of MY legs"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
FOREIGN NOTES.

PROFESSOR HUxLEY's health has improved,
and be will leave Venice next week for En-
gland.
RECENTLY in Paris, during the session of
the Congress Of the Free'thinkers, one
eminent thinker, striking an attitude, pas
sionately exclaimed: Gentlemen, am an
atheist-thsnk God"
President SOLOMON, of Hayti. on the fifth
anniversary of bis taking the presidential
chair, on the Esd ult granted full and
complete amnesty TO all political offenders
in the country as well as exiles.
ONE of the most CHASTITY sights in Munich
is to be witnessed in the Anatomica
Museum, on Schiller.strasse 1t consists OF
the heads of persons who have been guillo
tined in Bavaria for good many years
back.
PRINCE ROLAND BoEAPAETE, who is at pres
ent travelling IN England. has paid visit to
the Empress Eugene at Marlborough. o
this occasion the Prince presented to the
Empress the first copy of the new wors
which he is about to publish.
1HE emperor OF AuStrla mas OrQereu III
artistic bronze candelsbrum with three sill
yer medallions bearing portraits of Pope In
nocent, the Emperor Leopold and himself,
as present for the Church Del Anima at
Rome, in commemoration of the deliyersnce
of Vienna from the Turks in 1888.
A WONDERFUL engineering exploit is pro-
posed in Italy. where they talk OF throwing
bridge over the Straits of Messins that
separate Sicily from Italy. A place where
the channel is two and a half miles wide aud
36l feet deep is selected. The two piers will
support gisduct OF steel rails to height OF
32S feet above the water.
THERE is general outcry In Enrope that,
while wheat has gone down to the lowest
point reached during the present century,
bread remains as dear as ever. The bakers
and the millers are so far the only men who
get the benefits of the bountiful crops. Bread
sells in London at about four cents pound,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
AT LAST 4

Truth crushed to earth will rise again."
to the surface. 1t did open the ground in
1876, but force aud fraud stamped upon it. 1t
would have assembled In 1880, but falsehood,
force and corruption again suppressed it.
But in this good year of our Lord 1884, it
has forced its fetters and stands forth to day
"clear as the sun, fair as the moon and ter
rible as an army with banners"
Yes. the genius of political truth has
burst its prison bounds. 1t has issued its
fiat: the reign of corruption in the Republic
has ended.
The Capitalization party, the tariff rob-
berry party, the bloody shirt party, the
Credit Mobilier party, the whisky ring party,
the fraud of 1876 party, the Star-route thiev-
ing party, the vote bribing party, the mo-
nopolist's party-the party stained with all
these marks OF scoundrelism must 60! Truth
has at last risen in her indignant majesty
and ordered her insulter to be executed.
This is the last that will be heard of the
Republican party in a National election.
The mission for which it was permitted to
gain ascendency has long since been per.
formed. And since that performance the
party has so disgraced itself that many
of the very slaves emancipated under it:
administration now refuse to be ,classed
among its followers. One hundred thousand
colored men in the South were robbed
through the Freedman's Bsnk; millions oil
them, through their representatives in Con
gress, asked for National aid to education
which Republican Congress refused. The
Republicans have, for sixteen years, had nc
money to legislate to the psor. whether
white or colored; all the millions they have
dispensed have gone to the rich.
But now the order of affairs is to bt
changed, A party has regained the ascen
dency which believes in poor Treasury and
a rich people rather than in a poo
people and National Treasury will
hundreds of millions lying idle in it
vaults. A party is to assume the rein
of government which prefers thu
prosperity OF the toiling millions rattle
than the increasing OF the riches of the non
toiling millionaires. A party has come t,
administer the Government, the motto o
whose executive head is: Tell the truth.
Under the admin istration of this party W
shall have reform in the conduct of affair
of the Government, free ballot for its cit
zens, and legislation for the people rathe
than for favored monopolists.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
LOGAN rHE BETTER MAN.

While Jim Blaine is standing in with Elk
ms and the New York gang to defraud
Tilden and Hendricks, there is reason to
think that Logan is behaving himself prop
erly. The New York Herald on this point
remarks: while Blaine and his gang of
conspirstors in the East are acting on Jay
Gould's old plan of getting themselves 'as
close to the door of State Prison as possible
by melting the Republicans to election
frauds, General Logan in the West appears
to be behaving like a wise man and patriot.
He knows that Cleveland and Hendricks
have been fairly elected, and although the
telegraph wires from Maine are aching with
Blaine's desperate dispatches to count them
out no telegram comes from Illinois to in
dictate that General Logan does otherwise
than scquiesce loyalty and patiently in his
own defeat Logan Is q better man than
BlaiIen
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12

and pays 500 per cept. profit to the miller
and baker. In some places in the southern
part of England the same quality of bread is
sold at little over two cents a pound. and
pays good profit to the producer at that.
There is, however. nothing TO be astonished
at in these extortions of the trade when we
take into consideration the fabulous prices
which are paid for tea, coffee, sugar aud
other articles of first necessity at retail, and
the unprecedentedly low prices at which
they are sold Wholesale. Tea. for instance,
sells at auction in London at about tTenay
cents pound, and cal not be bought at re-
tail at less than sixty-fve cents
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
A Riot in Montreal.

MONTREAL, Nov. g. The celebrated ex priest,
Rev. Father Cniniquy lectured in Russell Hal
last night The hail was packed. The audience
were mostly opponents. An outside mob of about
2,t00 gathered. The p proceedings we're constantly
interrupted and soon after the lecturer com
menced the audience refused to let him proceed.
The men stood on seats and windOw-Sils, no vi
ine derlsively and yelling whenever the speaker
attempted TO mase himself heard. Large lamps
sno benches were broFen and brokeh glass was
soon scattered over the hall. The small police
fore present were unable TO preserve order. The
lecturer appealed to the police TO clear the hail.
which the y finally accomplished. few of Cnini-
guys friends remained to protect him. The mob
then commenced throwing stones through the
windows aud q good dial of damage was done aud
several were injured. The lights were turned out
ard the mob fired at random, threatening to kill
Chinlquy CarriRl es were summoned, ana while
the police beat back the crowd from the hack
Chiniquy and his friends entered them aud rap
idly drove Oft. II:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12

CUTTING OFF ONE END OF WINTER.
Touching the beautiful autumn weather
We have thus far experienced, an esteemed
exchange has this pleasant comment: There
is money In the weather we have enjoyed
during October. 1t has saved coal; the pas
tures. being green and nutritious, the winter
food for cattle has been saved to the farmer;
outdoor work has been carried on to the re-
Enumeration Of the laborer. The cash value
OF the warm weather has been for New Eng
land incalculable. No one knows what day
may bring forth, bat he must be insensible,
indeed, to the subtle influences of nature
who has not enjoyed the calm mornings, the
midday warmth, and the pleasanter evenings
of this October. 1t has been rather of the
September type. 1t has shortened the cold
and dismal season by so much"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12

Unrelenting as has been the
partisan conflict, it has been. in the main,
good humored. While opposition has run
high, intolerance has had little place, Each
citizen has accorded to his neighbor the right
to talk and vote his convictions. Only the
And let us hope that with the end of the
conflict will die any animosities that have
grown out of it, and that, forgetting we have
been antagoniziDg psrtisans all will now
settle down to their respective avocatIons,
grateful to Heaven for the citizenship we en-
10y and determined to work for the pros
perity of home and of country.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
THE RESULT.

The Governor OF New York has been
Tuesday last notes very great era in the
history of our country. The success OF the
Democratic party in the recent contest is one
OF the most remarkable political revolutions
of the century. The wisdom of Democratic
policies and the integrity of purpose of our
great political organization have at last re-
ceived that popular approval which they
have so long deserved and for which they
have 30 long waited. No political body in
the history of the world has
ever preserved its identity so I'M
broken, its forces and influences so intact,
under such a succession of defeats as have
bsfallen 1t. For nearly quarter of CEN
tury we have been without power, without
patronage, the subjects of ruthless proscrip-
ton, unproyoked outrage and reprosch, yet
it may be truly said we have thrived upon
disaster, We have been fed upon calamity,
and have been nourished and strengthened
by misfortunes.
1t must have always been base culmny
to say of party, endowed with such en-
during tenacity of purpose, and 80
unseI6sh devotion to principle, that it was
unworthy to administer the government of
free people. Yet this has been the un-
founded assumption of the opposition dur
ing the whole very long season of their
power and prosperity. This imperious and
false assumption has now received final
rebuke and q definite denial. The solid
North is broken-broken by the generosity
and magnanimity of the people, unwilling
to continue longer the domination depend
ent upon the traditional hatreds and AMI
mosities of the war.
The solid North was as Objectionable to
any true notion of National progress as a
solid South. We favor neither. We have
written, prayed, and hoped for au era OF
true peace, now at last realized, founded
upon no solidarity of any geograph
ical section, but upon the common
and united interests of the whole
country. The Nation is greater
than any of its parts. The people are great
er. and when aroused, as they of late have
been, are more powerful than any of the
classes OF which they are composed and
which have assumed to control their legis-
lation. We had almost forgotten to speak
of the past-it seems already in this bright
light of victory so distant, SO far away, as If
it never had been. We might speak
of the grievous public wrongs suffered by
the country during the very long period
of Republican domination; of the crimes
against personal liberty, against the rights
Of labor, against the public domain, the
heritage of the people now almost wholly
swallowed up by the greed of corporate
power, But we forbesr. We trust repara-
ton, swift and complete, will be made
wherever practicable. We ask nothing for
revenge or retaliation.
The Democratic party is great enough to
forgive its enemies; but also to do justice to
all interests, however diversified
We dismiss the past. We welcome the
future in which, under the auspices of
Democratic administration, void of impu-
rity, uDspotted by corruption, proud of its
majestic triumph in the popular heart, the
country is about to enter upon a new era of
progress, prosperity and happiness.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12

supported have swept Indiana. and that
even in the Republican stronghold of Ma
rion County our local ticket has triumphed.
The Sentinel has striven to do its part in
the campaign. Nor has it been without its
reward, for the Democracy of Indiana have
manifested their appreciation of its services
by rolling up a very large increase of its
circulation. And now that the campaign is
past we shall endeavor to deserve a continu-
ance of public favor by presenting a news
paper which shall compare fsvorably with
any in like field of journalism.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND,

There is no longer a question that such
will be the title of the present Governor oil
New York after the 4th of next March.
With Indiana gone Democratic, New York
only was needed TO solve the question of the
Presidency. That question has been solved
by New York being conceded to Governor
Cleveland by all the papers and people We
know of in the country except the New
York Tribune and the Indianapolis organs.
The National Democratic Committee, all the
papers in New York save the Tribune, Jay
Gould, Dan Manning and Governor Cleve-
land himself, all say that Governor CleYe-
land is elected. So the question is settled.
Now let US have peace.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1884-11-12
SOMETHING ALL CAN REJOICE
OVER


Both the great political parties could not
come out of the campaign with flying in.
signals of victory-one or the other had to
suffer defeat. But while the Democrats are
jubilant over success, the hard workers of
both the Republican and Democratic parties
can at least join hands in congratulations
over the fact that the campaign is over.
For months the party newspapers, the party
leaders. the campaign speakers and the
earnest partisans on either side
have taxed brain and energy. The candi
date who has stood upon all the stumps,
large and small, In the State; the horn-blower,
who has been almost blowing his brains out;
the county canVasser, who has felt it neces-
sary to visit every home and kiss every baby
where there was a voter around; the editor
and reporter who has had to sit up nights
to record in print all these goings en-all
these must enjoy the fruition of rest which
has now come to them. The wife who has
kept watch and ward into the
wee-small hours while her hus-
band was out seeking to win
votes, the girl whose lover has given up the
accustomed soft talk by the freslde to swell
the PROFESSIONS, the mother who has spent
anxious evenings lest her boys might chance
to mishap or be led into ver-dissipation-
these also will rejoice that the political fight
has been concluded.
For another reason all good citizens have
cause TO be glad. Il is, that with twelve
million men in our country engaged in the
campaign rivalry, there has yet been little
disorder and scarcely any bloodshed.