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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-05
Get five of your neighbOrs to take Sentine
and your own will be paid for.
Murder VIII Out.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, May 2.-The arrival
here last night OF Sheriff A. j. Witt, of Ran
dolph County, revives an old story of crime
in North Arkansas, and the truth of the old
saying murder will out" The Sheriff had
with him prisoner. Joseph Davis, one of
the principals in the murder of Duke Sum
ner, near Pocahontas, Randolph County, in
1877. The crime was one the bloody de
tails of which are well remembered to this
day. The victim, Duke Sumner, was a sport
ing character man Of considerable means,
and who at certain seasons of the year raced
horses through this State and the India
country. He was known to carry good
deal OF money about his person, and the
money he had was the motive for the muir
der. He arrived at POcanOntas about the
14th OF December, and had two race horses.
He said he was on his way up to the Chero-
kee country, where he had arranged for a
series of races. He began drinking
heavily the day after his arrival,
that county, Joseph Davis and Mark Whit
ley. AT last they ali apparently got beastly
drunk but it seems only one was really
under the influence of liquor, and that one
was the victim. Davis and Whitley took
Sumner few miles from town and carried
him into the WOODS, Where lney murdered
him in cold blood. They then divided his
money between them, each took horse, and
lied the country. y week later the body
was discovered, and suspicion at once rested
ON Davis and Whitley, but they could not
be found. Large rewards were offered for
their apprehension. Three years after the
crime Whitley was captured in Dunklin
County Missouri, brought back, tried. con-
victed snd executed. Davis, who has a wife
N Randolph County, was captured by means
IF intercepted letters, but broke jail and
escaped making his way to Texas. There he
not only forgot his Arkansas wife, but
changed his name and rented a farm in
BsstrOp County He married there twice,
but both women are now dead, and he has
two children now in the Lone Star State.
There is but one opinion as to the result of
mis- trial. and that is he is sure to be convict
ed and executed.
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AMERICAN MUMMIES.

The old man, jeff Davis, whom the asso-
Citations of the civil war made prominent as
much from those associations as from his
own inability to move with the world. or
Obstinacy in failing to recognize the move
ment until the short time elapses that will
bring his career to close, is like the fly in
the amber, perfect fossil of an age that the
country is rapidly forgetting The material
progress of the South-its railroads and its
iron manufactures and its rapidly enlarging
relations with the world beyond it, is leaving
its narrow provincialism behind it, save only
as a memory of the old. Mr.. Davis speech
is but the dying echo of the surging passion
that once rended this country. 1t is un-
questionable the South has been, and in the
country districts is yet, the most strongly
provincial and individual in this domain,
and it will require yet more railroads and
more manufactures and few years more OF
tribute to mother earth by her favorite sons,
before the intense provincalism can
merge into the intense nationalism of
the rest of the country. There is yet a con-
tempt for dollar worship and a lack of desire
for accumulation that has covered up, and,
to some extent has obscured the virtues in
the North, and that in Its Southern print
tive life ldespises many of those lumries
that are, or seem to be, the chief end of man
in this money-making age. These Southern
people somewhat remind US of those isolated
people of the mountainous sections oil
Europe that still live as their forefathers did
in the time of Julius Cesar, or those resi-
dents on the eastern shores of the Caspian,
whose folk lore of to-day is Of the deeds oil
Alexander the Great. We do not see ''cussed-
ness in this retention of old ideas by the
Southern people. for it is natural to people
to retain them who are thrown apart in large
measure from the vitalizing circulation oil
the world, its commerce and its social and
political activities. Somewhat patriarchial in
their methods and habits Of life,
| they retain theU lore Of locality With ths
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-05
CONFEDERATE MEMORIES.

General Gordons speech does not justify
the alarming headlines of the blOody-shirt
press. The war left the South with many
dead-fathers, sons and brothers. The re
membrance of those is holy with every PEG
pie, and doubly so with American people,
and the remembrance of the cause that re-
suited in an heroic defense, however falsely
grounded. can not be less than viewed with
solemnity by people who were so honest
in their convictions as to defend them with
their blood. We can see nothing in the
Montgomery episode to repress, and we do
see much in it to remind rs OF our own suf-
ferings and spirit of self sacrifice. There is
much in IT, too, for congratulation. A peo-
pie, while COMMUNICATING their most spirit
ed history, that can see and accept without
eliminating their common country present
the strongest guarantee that the result Is ac-
cepted as final and the restoration complete.
Both sides have their memories and their
history, and it X unfortunate that these
memories embrace the profOundest war of
history and are opposed in the same united
people. We think General Gordons refer
ence to the efforts of Charles Sumner to de-
stroy every reference that would tend to
keep alive the memory of the conflict was
well put. We do not think they should be
efisced. They are lesson of how differing
opinions led to war that was tonight out upon
those opinions. They are lessons of self
denial, suffering and heroism, in which it
can not he said that one section was in any
way inferior in the moral attributes to the
other Suffice 1t that the dead of the North
and the dead of the South are American
dead, of whom il would be dishonor to for
get or allow to become forgotten, and avoid
the dead of the North and the dead of the
South, LET Americans extinguish the North
and the South.
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Northwestern Crop Report.

OMAHA, May 1.-The Bee, tomorrow morn
ing, will publish crop reports from over fifty
counties in Nebraska and Western Iowa.
They are summarized as follows: with but
few exceptions the outlook for prosperous
season and bounteous returns is declared to
be magnificent In spite of the late spring
and the recent cold and heavy rains, farmers
are well along with their work. Nearly all
oflthe tall grain is reported in and growing
rapidly But little corn so far has been
planted, but active preparations are being
made to put it under ground as rapidly as
possible The wheat is in good condition.
The farmers are jubilant over the excellent
prospects Twenty counties report large
increase in the acreage of corn, while nearly
the same number report less wheat put in. A
general increase in acreage on all crops, how
ever, is noted. In one county alone is a loss
of acreage of corn reported. From eight
COUNTIES fax is reported to have been sown
extensively as an experimental crop, to take
the place of wheat. Broomcorn has also
been planted in large quantities in tour
counties Taken as a whole the reports indi-
cate that never has Nebraska bad a better
and more promising outlook for her crops
than at present.
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RELIGIOUS WAR.
Litigation Over the Possession of a Church
Ends in a Shooting ARRAY.

COLUMBIA, s. c., May For several
months the coDgl egation of the Bethel Afri-
can NJ. Z. Church has been engaged in liti.
cation over the possession of their church
property, and fight occurred at one time
while one faction was endeavoring TO force
an entrance. The trouble originated in
charges or maladministration against the
pastor, J. c. Waters, and church trials re-
suited, and the matter seeming unlikely of
adjustment on account of the determined
attitude and strong support Of Waters, he
was deposed at the last conference and r. E.
Wall assigned to the church. The trustees
refused to let him preach and suit was en-
tered for possession.
Last night Judge Frazer made an order
giving Wall the church. at late hour an
effort was made TO get into the building the
Trustees having refused to give up the keys.
and II was discovered that a party was in
side for the purpose of resisting The
attorneys of the party seeking admis-
sion demanded entrance, which was refused,
and threat was made to shoot if those out
side tried to get in. One of the door panels
was then knocked out with an axe, when a
Yolley OF at least dozen shots were poured
through the opening from inside. and short
ly after another vUlley. John Gibson, color
ed, who stood at the edge of the walk, was
shot in the knee with buck-shot, and Chris
Lee, hscknan, got a pistol ball in the
abdomen. He is supposed to be fatally
wounded As soon as the firing took place
the Sheriff and his deputy entered the
church and captured six men. taking four
pistols and al army musket Several others
escaped through the windows.
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same pertinacity that their vision OF the
world is restricted. We were assured and
somewhat Illuminated on this point by the
history OF young lad who had lived all his
life among the hills of North Carolina, en-
gagged in defrauding Uncle Sans revenue Dy
illicit whisky. When finally captured he was
taken to Washington, thence to New York
On beholding the reaches of territory
teeming cities, and at last the majestic streets
and public buildings of Washington City,
for the first time the real magnitude and
grandeur of the country burst upon his
mind, and he exclaimed IF he had known
that the United States was so powerful he
would never thought of resistance" 1t was
little incident, yet it shows the condition
OF mind, the simplicity and ignorance of
those sections to whom the locality of their
birth is the entire horizon of their life and
experience, and it is little wonder that their
conception of government, of society should
be sterile and restricted.
1t does not do to say that men like Davis
and Gordon and other leaders know better
They do, and yet withal these influences
bias the direction OF the strongest minds
especially as this bias was nearly normal to
the general conditions of the country when
they were young and formative in their con-
ceptions. Their utterances show, with all
their culture, that they have not recognized,
even family, the directing. centralizing in
huence of the modern world, neither they
nor their admirers To them, and to the
sections they belong, the world is precisely
rs il was. Yet this can not be wondered at
We OF the North are to large extent IN
wiling TO admit new questions, new proc
lens, new necessities. 1t has been demon
strated within these three months that the
controlling opinion of the ruling classes OF
the North is only degree less dense in its
perception of new influences. We see able
newspapers in the same breath belabor the
Southern people for their want OF perception
of social forces that now are wearing out in
the North, and in the next condemn rising
forces with the same provincialism, the same
constitutional constructionisrn. and with
equal blindness, as those who in 1850 refused
to see necessity to regard their property
rights separate from humanitarian rights.
Those old ideas are dead to the world, dead
to America and only seemingly exist, like
the mUmmies of Egypt as forms of what
once were living, and preserved by the en-
balming process OF extreme social rigidIty
and commercial quiet.
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a SMindler Exnosed.

MILWAUKEE, May "A lawyer of this city
has commenced suit against DR.. Thomssson,
also known as T. H. Schuse, for the recovery
of $4,000, alleged to have been obtained by
conspiracy from Mrs. Jane Stockman, now
residing at East Saginaw, Mich. 1t is recited
in the complaint that in 1892 DR.. Thomasson
married Mrs. Stockman, aged seventy, at De-
troll. He was a married man at that time
wife No. l, it being alleged. entering into the
conspiracy, whereby it was intended to Sc
cure Mrs. Stockmans fortune of S25 600 He
succeeded in Investing 10000, after which
he left her and she secured divorce at Chi
csgo. To wife No. he then pretended to
have gone to California, but instead he came
to kenosha County, this State, bought val
liable stock farm and engaged in raising
bloo6ed stock. 1t was through wife No
that he was found and his fraudulent opeta-
tons exposed. A writ of attachment has
been placed on the farm, which is of more
than sufficient value to satisfy Mrs. Stock
mans claim.
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POOR OLD JEFF.

Poor old JEFF Davis never will learn any
thing. OF course he is beyond voting the
Republican ticket, but then he might have
made himself solid with the bloody shirt
crowd in his recent address by saying some
thing pleasant about Jim Blaine or eulogis-
ing the rascally radical reconstruction meas
ures of the sixties Now Longstreet, Ma
hone, MOseby and other Republican rebels
occupy front seats in the Republican church
by simply joining that party. they killed
more Union troops ten thousand times over
than old JEFF, and then were sent abroad to
represent the Nation a. 10 -eign coUrs. Old
Jeffalways fOrgets to go back on the friends
that never went back on him, and persist
emily fails TO recognize the beauties of Re
publicanism. What can be expected of such
an old dotard. To he sure he urged his
hearers to restore the Government to its
pristine purity" but the Republican party
leaders think that sort of talk is treason. 1t
takes long memory to comprehend it, and
the average Republican only remembers that
sort of pristine purity" that lived and
moved amid the helleries OF the carpet-bag
era that created the whisky and other viii
famous rings OF Republican administrations,
or swindled Mr.. Tilden out of his election.
JEFF is getting to be too old dog to learn
new tricks
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DISHONEST PRACTICES.
Alleged Frauds Praoticed BY, Former Post
master General
Seventy thousand Dollars of the Govern
meDts Money Gone Glimmeriug-Bel-
Igerent gressmen-Ex-Presi-
dent Arthur's Health.
specia! 20 the Sentinel.

Special % the Sentinel
WAsHINGTON, May 1.-Representative Stahl-
necker. who on Monday offered resolution ask
ing Tor the appointment of committee to inves-
tgate the alleged frauds in the PostOfiee Depart
ment, the full particulars OF which were at the
time printed in the Sentinel, is in possession Of
additional information bearing upon the sub.
ject. After examining the reply made
by ex- Postmaster General Hatton addressed
to the House of Representatives on the
last day Of the last Congress in regard TO frauds
which were discovered by Postmaster General
Gresham just before he retired from the office of
Postmaster General in 1884. Mr.. stahlnecker finds
what he believes to be remarkable compiled
ton OF contradictions whi5h. upon its
face. he thinks exhibits gross fraud.
After making careful analysis OF
Mr.. Hattons production embracing a series OF
letters and contracts there is found to be due the
Government on money which went 10 the con
tractors or account Of the alleged frauds $40 26l57
IN excess OF the S6O(00 named IN these dispatches
last Monday. NJ. Stahlnecker believes as each
contract Is examined and inquired into more
frauds viii come to the surface until IS much as
$1,000 can De traced which properly belongs to
the Government
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would betray the secret to the public so ne took
tram yesterday tor this city, where he will find
q tailor Miss Folsom is in Paris having her trous
made.
The bridegroom win. by the aid of Secretary
lamont get tailor from New York to run over
10 the capital and take his measure. while the at
PENDANTS viii be compelled to observe great Sc
ciecy MI Bissell said to-day u dom think the
public has right to 60 into a mans private af-
isirs. The papers have printed great many ar
tcles on the subject, aud if knew anything il
would be late in the day for me to talk. wish to
he excused from saying anything whatever about
the President private affairs"
In regard to the report that he was to succeed
Secretary Manning, Mr. Bissell said
There is no truth in that report. / hope and
everyb body else hopes that Mr.. Mannings speedy
recovery OF his accustomed health will render any
talk OF successor unnecessary. AS for myself
never have been in politics. have never held
public position of any kind. and L do not desire
TO DO so. The criticism and Misrepresentation TO
which public men are subjected to in this country
are simply intoerable. have profession that
like, and mode Of life that is entirely agreeable
to me, and propose to keep it. l have not seen
Mr.. Cleveland since the beginning of March. /
then stopped at Washington on my way home
from Southern trip. Mr.. Cleveland was working
just as hard ever Mt. Manning's illness had
exercised no deterring influence. So far as |
could see, there was 10 let up at all"
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Jefferson Davis Arrives at Atlanta, Georgi

Jefferson Davis Arrives at Atlanta, Georgia.
ATLANTA, Ga, April 30.-The two special
cars that left for Montgomery yesterday to
bring JEFF Davis TO Atlanta arrived this
afternoon. An immense crowd greeted him
at the depot. AT every station along the
route from Montgomery, Mr.. Davis was met
by tremendous delegations who shouted and
cheered from the moment the train came in
sight until it was out of hearing. AT each
station speeches were made BY different
members of the Hill Statue Committee and
ex Confederate Committee. AT several places
Mr. Davis spoke, though he was very weak.
At La Grange, Ca, the committee endeavored
to prevent him from speaking. but he said
that he must speak few words there, as it
was the old home of Ben Hill. The Mayor
of Montgomery accompanied the party, and
upon their arrival they were met by the
Hill Statue Reception Committee, and the
whole party, amid uproarious cheering,
were escorted to the residence of Mrs. b. ii.
Hill whose guest Mr.. Davis will be.
Mr.. Davis was accompanied by his daugh-
ter and General Gordon and his wife and
daughter. The city is wild with enthusiasm.
No other man ever received such reception
from Georgia people. Crowds of visitors are
already here, and by tomorrow the Td
will be the largest the city has ever seen.
The proceedings tomorrow will be intensely
interesting. The military will go out after
Mr.. Davis, accompanied by the Hill Monu-
ment Committee and will meet the eX Con-
federate soldiers at the Capitol Grounds, and
all will lhen proceed to the site of the Hill
monument
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MISS FOLSOM IN PARIS.
She is Engaged in Giving Orders for a Wed
ding Outfit.

PARIS May Miss Frances Folsom, accom-
panyiDg her mother, Mrs Oscar Folsom, and her
cousin, Mr.. Benjamin Folsom, arrived in Paris
several weeks ago and are stopping at the Hotel
Bellevue, in the Avenue de l'Opera. The Bellevue
is one OF the hotels erected at comparatively re-
cent date when the Avenue de rOpera was laid
cut by the Paris municipality to give a
broad sweep from the Louvre to the new
Opera House. 1t may be suggestive in
tins connection that the situation
of the Bellevue Hotel is convenient to some of the
most fashionable magaZins de nOuveautes The
establishment of NJ. Worth is but a few steps dis
tant around the corner, ia the Rue de la Paix.
nue. is celebrated for its bargains in the multifar
minor articles OF ladies' wearing apparel, be-
ing the most important rival of the celebrated
Bon Marche. Not far from Worth's, in the Rue de
la Paix the parlors of Nine. Nirot an artist OF
no less reputation in the world of millinery than
are Worth and Nine. Rodriguez in that OF the
dreSsmaking art. The present quarters OF the
FOlsoms are exceptionally convenient for the pur-
chase of the articles which go TO making up
trousseau. Whether or not the hotel was selected
with view to this easy contiguity, it is TACT
OF it. In company with her mother she mas been
busily engaged for some time past in giving or
ders for what is unmistakably a wedding outfit,
dividing her time between modiste and milliner
with impartial assiuuity. The members oil her
travelling party and her friends here are nom
committal as TO the report OF Miss Folsom $ en-
gagement to President Cleveland. In reply to the
direct question none of them will give any posi-
tive answer either affrative or negative.
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A CLEVER SWINDLER.
Boston Merchants and Others Taken IN
Rapidly and Extensively.


Boston, Frederick W Watkins during
his brief sojourn in this city hs> appeared under
anumber of aliases, which he mas found handy
in carrying out his schemes OF entrapping unwary
people, He turned up in the Hub some four
months ago, and during that time app eared first
in the role Of restsurateur. then the head
and front OF huge company with capital OF
several milliOus-on paper-and, TO cap the eli
max, swindled, right and LETT, those with whom
he came in contact, by means OF forged checks
and drafts.
In January New York officers came here. arrested
him and took him to that city He managed to
settle the affair there and came back in February
and then opened his great scheme
He established the New England agency OF the
New York Fertilizing Company in an Office near
state street. He issued flaming circulars 70 the
leading fish dealers, requesting cOnSignments of
bad fish. such might be used for fertilzing pur-
poses He also got out artsttcall yprlnted bill
heads of the company and issued a circular to
the farmers soliciting business. At the same time
he sent out another circular to them, in which he
spoke of special benefits to be derived from their
purchase of the last of series, OF three million
dollar gold bonds, which he represented covered
the mortgage on the lands and buildings OF the
company ia New YORK Ihe interest ne repre-
scented as payable at the National Park Bank, New
York. and guaranteed by the Mutual Loan aud
Trust Company. he then established ware
house for the Storage OF consignments coming
from one set OF yIctims-the fish dealers.
At first. quickly as he got The stuff he sent it
away, but during the last two weeks there has
been such rush OF business that he employed
ten men at the storehOuse. and last week he
chartered vessel to take a cargo OF fish 10 the
New York warehouse.
The result OF the negotiations was that he gave
to this firm check drawn on the Chemical Bank,
of New York. He bought salt right and lett from
the leading dealers and paid them in checks.
Within the last few days things have become so
hot that he suddenly skipped, and his doings have
been brought to light.
be left suddenly on Tuesday afternoon, after it
had been discovered that the furniture in the
gorgeous office of the company, which had beeu
obtained on a lease had been mortgaged to no less
than five different people. He comes OF a rich
family. His father when he died in Fiatbush, r.
he went through.
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Havana Markets.

HAVANA, May 1.-The sales of sugar dar-
ing the week were unimportant and chiefly
speculative. There was but slight change in
prices. Stocks in warehouse at Havana and
Matanzas are 10000 boxes, 10000 bags, H.
600 hhds. Receipts during the week were
$500 boxes, 90, 600 bags, LOO hhds. Exports
during the week were $500 boxes, 1850 bags,
2,4O0 hhds., including $500 bags and l, 500
hhds. to the United States. Molasses sugar,
regular to good polarization, 81 37K@2 80
gold per quintal; muscovado, fair to good
refining, polarization so to 80 degrees, So 07@
2 1871; centrifugals SO degrees polarization,
in hogsheads, bags and boxes, So 07@3 Is
Bacon, S13 so gold. Butter-Superior Amer
lean, s26 gold per quintal. Flour, $l2 q
per Dbl. fox American.