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 JAMES MCLAUGHLIN S SON PUBLISHER. SI.5O per year. Postage prepaid by the pub sher. A discount of 25 cents made when payment if made STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. - - PLEASE look at the date printed with your address on this paper and if indebted please remit amount as the publishers are at great expense refttng fol business after the Ire, and aeea every cent due FROM Aug. 14th Lewis Mclaughlin is associated ir the publication of The Press Coventry Local Regis ter and the business of job printing connected there with, under the firm name of James Mclaughlin & Son.
 THE Union Agrlcnltural Society will hold their an. nua cattle show and fair at Broad Brook, Oct 7th. THE officers of The Stafford Agricultural Society requested to meet at the Stafford National Bank on Saturday, at p. m.
 MUCH of our space this week is taken by the mem orial address of Edward J. Chaffee Esq.,, of New York; delivered at Somers the day of Gen. Grants burial, and published by request of many who heard it. It makes interesting reading.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25
A SAD CONDITION.

The language and intent of the following
petition, from sixteen maidens of Charles
ton, s. c., bear q strange Interpretation to
the present status and advanced stage OF
woman's position. 1t was found among the
records of the Secretary OF State, bearing
date 1888, and was addressed to the Governor
of South Carolina, and ran as follows:
The Humble Petition of All the Maids
Whose Names are UDderwritten: Whereas,
We the humble petitioners, are at present in
a very melancholy condition of mind. con-
sidering how all the bachelors are bliudly
captured by widows and We are thereby
neglected. In consequence of this, our re-
quest is that your Excellency will for the fu-
ture order that no widow presume to marry
any young man till the maids are provided
for, or else to pay each of them fine for sat
isfaction of invading our liberties, and like
wise a fine to be levied on all bachelors as
shall be married to widows. The great dissd-
vantage it is to Us maids is, that the widows
by their forward carriage, do snap up the
young men and have the vanity to think
their merit beyond ours, which is a great
imposition to us, who ought to have the
preference. This is humbly recommended
to your Excsllency's consideration. And
We poor maids in duty bound, will ever
pray, etc"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25
THE LEGISLATURE.

Going leisrrely is not always going slow.
There is such thing as getting good
ready" and then going fast with very fair
confidence of going right. The Legislature
this session has been acting on this sugges-
ton, or as Crockett had it, making ''sure of
being right before going ahead" II has
spent most Of its time in studying its work,
very necessary preliminary when there is
as much to do as there is here, and especially
as much wasted work as tn re is, which yet
must be examined before there can be any
certainty that it is useless, and when there
is as little time for well-weighed work as
there is here with the two months allowed
every two years to the legislative business Of
100000 of people. The rapid dispatch of
matters that have had chance of thorough
examination, when the time came for il,
proved that what caviling papers called
'idleness" and "uselessness' was really
preparation, and that in all probability this
will prove one Of the busiest sessions of the
Legislature for years. There is more
danger OF doing too much and making
trouble by immature legislation than of do
ing so little that the imputation Of "a wasted
session" can be fairly made.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

out denying the claim that Alabama can
fell iron at nine dollars, giveS eleven dollars
and fifty tents as the figure at which she can
sell, though he admits that there are fur
naces which can afford lower figure. he
further says: ut must be remembered that
Pennsylvania has reached the minimum OF
cost in the production and marketing of her
iron, while Alabama can aud will greatly
cheaper the delivery of her iron in the great
centers of trade"
The Courier-Journsl, which two years ago
predicted that iron could be made in the
South at 50 to So, now places the figures at
IS to $40. The latter are none too low.
Given the extensive facilities OF the large
and long established furnaces of the North,
the cost of production will further decrease.
Within five years, even without q penny
tariff, England will find herself shut out
from the American iron market. The tariff
will be found super-serviceable. There is
ore enough in Alabams, Tennessee, Ken
lucky and North Carolina to supply the
American continent, and the facilities for
transportation adequate for its distribution
The days of Pennsylvania iron monopolies
are numbered.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25
END OF IRON MoNoPoL1Es.

There are now none to dispute the fact
that Alabama and Tennessee can deliver pig
iron to the centers of trade at lower price
than the cost of making it in Pennsylvania
and Ohio. Some time since the Philadelphia
Press sent representative into the South to
refute the fabulous stories of the cheapness
at which iron could be turned out there.
The Press man in the end affirmed the truth
OF all that had been claimed for the Alabama
mines. More recently Colonel A. K. Nc
Clure, of the Philadelphia Times, proceeded
South on the same mission, and now makes
the frank admission that the half had not
been told to him. lit is idle" writes Colo
mel Mcclure, "for Pennsylvania and other
great iron producing States to close their
eyes to the fact that we have reached the
beginning OF great revolution in those pro-
ducts. No legislation (alasl), no sound pub
lie policy. no sentiment can halt such rev.
olution when the immutable laws Of trade
command ii, and the sudden tread OF the
hordes from the Northern forests upon an
Gent Rome did no. more surely threaten the
majesty OF the mistress OF the world than
does the tread of the iron and coal diggers of
Alabama threaten the majesty OF Northern
iron and coal fields"
In other words, Pennsylvania and Ohio
are brought face to face with another and
more dangerous iron rival than England
one that can produce II ~ cheaply ~ Eng
and and has not got to pay transportation
across the Atlantic. Colonel Mcclure, with
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

him in his cell in the prison OF Ia Concierge.
The interview was long one. The Young
man-'S.' we will call him-was brave aud
Bopchalant and, after a long metaphysical
Argument, my grandfather said to him: 4
have long wanted to prove If unconscious
Dets and the ability to act remain any time
after death. Let me make this proposition !:
! will be present and near you at your exc
cution TO morrow; my profession and my re-
lation to the Committee of Safety give me
unusual privileges. The moment your head
fe Is into the basket will lift ii up, and If
you know me and still have the
power Of action, you will close your left
eye three times The doomed man laugh
iDgly agreed, the compact was sealed,
and the two friends babe each other
an effect 'onaIe farewell. Morning dswned
on the prison, and as each victims number
was read out he took his place in the tum-
bril- and was carried to the scene of his ex-
ecution. The young Englishman was there
so was my grandfather. Head after head
fell. Then came the turn of 81 BE placed
bis head beneath the knife which flashed
downward, and the head dropped into the
basket. My grandfather could hardly re-
press shudder. but true to his promise and
bis thirst for knowledge, be picked II up and
held the face to him. A film seemed TO be
gathering over his eyes, but suddenly the
left eye closed, then oOened. Did his senses
deceive him? No. Il closed again. Once
more it opened; again il closed; il opened
again. The experiment was complete"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25
FOOLISH.

There is good deal of humbug in the cry
OF "Sectionalism," "Solid South" and kim
dred expressions used so fippantly by the
Republican press. There is very little Sec
tional luminosity outside of the Blaine
organs and few leading Republican bosses
and politicians. The solid South" is
largely a creature of the Imagination.
The figures of the last Presidential cleo.
ton demonstrate that the Democracy have
no actual msjority in several Southern
States, and the plurality in five at least is
very small. Take for instance the following
States:
Florida, with total vote OF 59,96l, gave
Cleveland plurality of 3 571.
Maryland, with total vote of 1855, $50, gave
Cleveland plurality Of 1893.
Tennessee, with total vote of 259, 424, gave
Cleveland plurality of 1902.
Virginia, with ,otal vote of 2S4, 99l, gave
Cleveland plurality OF 6 o03.
West Virginia, with total vote OF 1872, l57,
gave Cleveland plurality of 2.477.
Blaines plurality is alike trifiing in sew
eral Northern States. Here are the figures
from seven OF them:
Illinois, with total vote of 6I2 500, gave
Blaine plurality of 2.269.
Michigan, with total vote of 4O6, 223, gave
Blaine plurality of 5,3oS.
Wisconsin, with total vote 3l9.s70, gave
Blaine plurality OF 2,444.
Oregon, with q total vote of 52,I32, gave
Blaine plurality of 9ss.
In the great State OF New York, Mr.. Cleve-
land received only a plurality of 1,o47 in a
total vote of LII, 263. The great mass OF
the people are kindly inclined toward all
sections. Let the Blaine organs advocate
that which makes for peace.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25
AN ovERsToCK OF "RED TAPE.


A capital enactment of the Legislature
would be such an amendment to the law
relating thereto as should put a stop to the
expensive folly of bringing to this city twice
year the school revenues Of the various
counties. These sums from the ninety-two
counties only remain few weeks and then
must be transported, in whole or in part,
back to the ninety two counties for distri-
button to the townships for school pur-
poses.
Whence the necessity and where the bene-
fits OF such poll cy2 How is Steuben
County or the State benefited by the Coun-
ty Treasurer bringing down to the State
Treasury Steuben's assessment for school
purposes and then, q month or two later,
coming down. drawing 1t out of the State
Treasury and taking it back again. There
are some 500 miles OF travel il he comes in
person, and for what end2
Why not have each county retain and dis
burse its assessment for school purposes, or
such part of 1t as the apportionmsnt allows
1t? Take Elkhsrt, for example, on
the northern border. whose assessment
of SIG. is only s15s.50
more than its apportionment OF
S16,5S3. 71-why have it send it's assessment
to the State Treasury and then weeks later
send for its superintendent? Why not have
it simply remit the excess of S15S.50?
Twice per year the counties send to the
State Treasury about 81 ,000, 900 Tor 1000.
600 per snnum) for school purposes, and
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

Dr.. JOHN N. HOME, q wealthy and distin-
guished dentist of New Jersey, died recent
~, and part of his will relates curiously to
the cure of consumption. He introduces
the subject by saying that in 1888 his life was
fresh air, after which time, in deep gratitude
to God, he made the subject OF correct
breathing Of common air. study. He had
been impressed by observing the result of a
sigh on the interior mechanism, the normal
action of the organs being reversed thereby
and everything being disarrsnged. while full,
deep breathing led to a healthy development
of all these organs.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

INVITED to deliver the st. Patrick's Day
Grafton this year before the Irishmen of OF
tawa, Canada, Mr.. John Boyle O'Reilly, of
the Pilot BOSTON, inquired of the English
Home Secretary if Her Msjesty's Govern
ment would on that occasion grant him i'm
munity from arrest on British soil for his
completely in the Fenian operations of 1856.
The answer was that such immunity could
not safely be granted" &c. although his
countrymen in Canada are still anxious for
him to visit them, says the Pilot, las he can
not afford to alarm his family and perhaps
seriously interfere with his business by such
an experiment, it is not probable that he
will CO."
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

CHERIFF'S SALE.-By virtue OF q certified copy
- OF decree 10 me directed. frem the Clerk Of
the Superior Court OF Marion County, Indiana, ia
q cause wherein Francis N. Churchman ct al.
sre plaintiffs sno DOrman n. Davidson ct al. are
defendants lease No So 799). requiring me TO make
the sums of money in said decree provided, and in
manner as provided for in said decree, with in
tereSt on said decree and costs / viii expose at
public sale, to the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 2lsT DAY OF FEBRUARY,
a. D.. 1855,
between the hours OF 10 O'Clock a. n. and O'Clock
p. m. Of said day, at the door Of the Court House
OF Marion County, Indiana, the ren8 and profits
for a term not exceeding seven years, of the fol-
lowing real estate, to-wit:
Lot number eIghty-fve ISL in Davidson's second
addition to the city o. indianapolis, IN Marion
County, Indiana.
If such rents and profits viii not sell for a suf-
fcent sum to satisfy said decree interest and costs,
Twill at the same time and place expose to public
sale the fee simple OF said real estate, or so much
thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said de-
cree, interest and costs Said sale will be made
without any relief whatever from valuation or
appralsement laws
GEORGE II. CARTER,
Sheriff OF Marion County.
February oath, A. ID. 1885.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

refreshing to note the Importance which
Washington press correspondents attach to
the corridor gossip of the Capitol. SIT is be-
lieved here" etc. sit is stated on what is
considered reliable authority etc.; sit is
thought in certain circles" etc., that Mr..
Cleveland has decided on this, that or the
other man. If the reader who sees all this
twsddle will say "those fellows know just
what 1 know-which is nothing-and no
more, of who will constitute Mr.. Cleveland s
Cabinet" he will say largesized truth.
The expressions of those who have pretend
ed to know anything of the slate are only
guesses, and need not be relied on as any
thing more. Of course, some will be proven
to have guessed correctly, and those will
sagely remark 81 told you So" But it Is
only guess after sll.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

The President,elect went ''coasting" the
other night. A witness, however, says
that he who reports the incident saw Tears
in his eyes, and "the wind blowing through
his mustache with q mournful cadence"
As Mr.. Cleveland was whirling down the hill
ct the rate of twenty miles an hour and the
correspondent stood at the top the story
must be taken with grain of salt. Here it
is: " The next instant they were
darting down the slide like fash OF light.
Tears came into the eyes of the President
elect, and he held his breath as the wind
blew through his mustache with mournful
cadence. Jolly coasters caught only q
glimpse OF him as the sled sped downward,
but he did not escape recognition. Young
men clspped their hands and painting beau
ties paused to waive hsndkerchiefs and COM
forters. 1t was triumph by moonlight. At
list the little sled came to q pause and Mr..
kvelsnd and his IDIOT alighted- Their
ching wss hecked with snowy particles
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25
A Difference of Opinion,

Referring to the new bond of the Treas
uIer of State, Mr.. Cooper said in recent in
tervIew with News reporter:
''The bond will be submitted to the Governor
and when it is approved By him 1.-THE Governor
il will be locked up and kept locked"
"Has the Governor decided that the names
should be suppressed
mo, not exactly that but we have an under
standing about the matter. and the bond will not
be made public. The requirements OF the law
with its provisions and approved by the Governor
The responsibility rests with him ana me. KnOw
what am talking about when | say that the
names will be kept to ourselves"
Governor Gray seems to differ some what
with Mr.. Cooper in relation to the mstter,
as we notice the following in yesterdays
News:
Apropos to Mr.. Cooper's remark that the bonds
mems names were not 10 be MADE public, and
that an understanding to that effect had been
made with the Governor. the latter to-day SAID:
There is one thing wish you would say in the
News, and make 1t emphatic: No arrangements
have been made with me with regard 70 keeping
Mr. CoOper's bondsmen's names out oil print; and
what's more none can be made. Whate er Is
right that the public should have they will get.
the bonckmen's names, but made no remark"
It is a matter Of pleasurable congratula-
ton to be thus promptly and decisively as
sured that Governor Gray will not, as stated
by the Treasurer, be party to locking up
from public view 90 important a public
paper as the bond OF the State Treasurer
Indeed, no one who knows. Governor Gray
could for a moment have supposed such q
thing possible.
To have added this to the blunder already
perpetrsted in relation TO this Treasury
matter, would surely have been strange,
almost beyond precedent.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25
MERR1LL MoeREs, Attorney for Plainua.

OHERIFF'S SALE-By virtue of an execution to
- me directed from the Clerk of the -0tbson
Circuit Court OF Gibson County Indiana, l viii
expose at public sale, TO the highest bidder, on
SATURDAY, THE 2lST DAY OF MARCH.
A, d., 1885,
between the hours OF 10 O'Clock A. N. and O'Clock
F. NJ. of said day, at the door OF the Courthouse
OF Marion County, Indiana. the rents and profits
for term not exceeding seven years, OF the FOL
lowing real estate, situate In Marion County, In
diana, tO-wit:
Lot No. eleven I'LL IN g. B. Edwards sub
division OF block nineteen 49,, in johnson heirs
addition to the city of Indianapolis
And on failure to realize the full amount OF
Judgment interest and costs, will. al the same
time and place, expose at public sale the fee SIM
pie of said real estate.
Taken as the property Of Pleasant n. spain, at
the suit of William l.. Dorsey,
Said sale to be made with relief from valuau0n
GEORGE H. CARTER.
Sheriff OF Marion County.
February Dist A. ID. 1885.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

TIE Springfield Republican, through its
Washington correspondent, tells very I'M.
pleasant story: 1.-THE Senate, in its last ex-
ecative sessi.n, contaminated one of the
grossest outrages upon West Point and the
army which 1t has perpetrated at the pres
ent session. A cadet named Wright, from
New Jersey, who was about to be found de-
Scent short time since, resigned to escape
the disgrace. He at once. through New Jer-
sey social influence exerted here, secured q
nomination fro N the President as Second
Lieutsnant. The Senate had full knowledge
of the case, and still confirmed him. As q
result, Wright, who could not maintain
himself as a cadet takes rank in the army
two years ahead of those cadets he left in
his own class to struggle through their
courseD
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

WHO STRUCK BILLY PATTERSON?
This question is not fresh one. Every
native born American of seventeen years
must have heard it asked. Within the last
half century it has travelled in sundry Ian
guages, around the globe and until now,
never been answered. Here is the origin of
the expression:
About 1885 one Billy Patterson, OF Balti
more, while visiting in Hsbersham, a noun
tain county in Georgia, fell into fight with
one of the natives. In the progress Of the
fight tome person came to the rescue of the
native by striking Billy Patterson on the
head. But so large was the crowd and so
intense its interest in the set-to that no one
saw from whom came the blow. The mys-
terry Of the source of the blow so exercised
the crowd as to break up the fight.
Billy Patterson turned his attention
from his open antagonist to an
effort at finding who had secretly struck
him. When, after weeks OF fruitless in
curry, he returned to Baltimore, he left
friends ID continue the search. Patterson
and his friends sgitated the question until it
came into general use over the entire coun-
try. The man struck was vexed over the
affair through life, and in his last will and
testament is clause reciting that the ad-
ministrators on his estate pay $500 to any
person who should furnish proof of lwho
deslt him the clsdestine blow.
A abort time since one John Dyer, of Ha-
bersham County, died at the age of ninety
nine. Only little while before death he
confessed to have been the man who struck
Billy Patterson.
Nospeculation has yet appeared as to what
this answer has to do with the extraordinary
billiards. the interruption of transportation,
the excess of catastrophes by rail and other
recent disturbances. But even if the answer
precipitated these commissions, we can en-
dure them patiently when remembering that
we, at least, have solved that problem of
worldwide moment: "Who struck Billy
Patterson?n
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

twice a year take about 81, 900 away
again. This process involves expense some
where. Who bears 1t? The weeks this su IA
lies in the State Treasury it is withdrawn
from the counties. Why not let such part
Of it as must go TO the counties remain in
them? 1t is not unfrequently the case that
the school authorities are Inconvenience
money.
To more fully illustrate our argument, we
give from the State Auditors reports the
monthly Treasury balances for the fiscal year
ending Ocfnhar 81 1884:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25

SPEAKER CARLISLE is making a collection
of the most curious communications he re-
ceives; such, for instance, as letter from a
Minnesota man, who wanted an appropris-
ton by Congress to provide him with good
sleigh. He told what kind of wood it was
to be made of, how many bells it should
have. and aow thick the steel OF the ranners
shouls be- and in postscriptum intimated
the, th salvation of the country depended
on he appropriation being made promptly.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-02-25
A PROTECTION ALL can FAVOR,

A PROTECTION ALL CAN FAVOR.
The fire demon seems to have gluttonous
relish for large, isolated buildings, which
have been erected as the homes of children,
or persons equally helpless. Several in
stances of this kind, involving fearful sscri-
fee of human life, will be fresh in the
memory of all, and the latest in our dis
patches has but narrowly escaped being an
other cruel holocaust. The arctic rigors OF
Saturday morning witnessed the destruction
by fire of the Mountain Institute, an educa-
tional establishment at Chappsuqua, New
York State-the country home of the late
Horace Greedy. One of the teachers
was fortunately awakened in time, and
with the assistance OF his companions,
managed to extricate safely the seventy five
children who were pupils of the Institute.
There were many narrow escapes, however,
and several of the children were carried out
insensible through the smoke and flames,
while all had to pass some time upon the
frozen, snow-covered ground, barefoot and
partly naked, before effectusl assistance
reached them. The very idea of the situa-
ton is enough to make one shudder, its only
bright spot being that no precious little life
was lost. But we may well ask If there be
no preventive of the oft-recurring horror of
this class all over the country? Is it not at
at least possible that the States, respectively,
shall exercise the same supervision over
buildings in the rural districts-intended,
like this, to shelter number of children or
infrm persons-thst municipalities do with
in urban limits? Shall we never attain to
common prudence except through disaster?