Pike County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 49, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 April 1881 — Page 1

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. A PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. April 1.—Another diy was spent by the Semite In unfruitful discussion of politics, past and present Mr. Lamar opened up with a twohours’ speech upon the Senatorial sitnaJ'A'* tlnd the status of Southern politics. He '"£* followed by Mr. Hoar oil Southern repn- ■ diat ion, particularly on repudiation in Mississippi. This brought out Mr. George and Mr. Dawes and the whole subject. Eugene Hale - too): a hand, elaborating the difference between the Maine and Mississippi-plan of selfgovernment, as he understood it. The debate closed with a sharp passage-at-arms between Messrs. Mahone ana Voorhees, regarding an editorial from a Republican newspaper characterizing Mahone as a “renegade Demoorat” and a “repudiationist," -which was quoted by Voorhees m his speech. Adjourned till Monday. ^ April 4.—The political discussion was resumed. the principal debaters being Senators Johnstpn and Dawes. April St,—Mr. McPherson asked leave to present a petition reciting the fact that Michael Boynton, a citizen of the United States, -had been arrested and thrown into prison by the British Government on the vagne charge of inciting crime and violence, and. had been denied the right to trial before a Jury of his peers; and 'Adling upon Congress to demand that the fflnited States Government should interfere for his protection. The petition was signed by members of certain land leagues of New Jersey and-New York. Mr. Hoar objected to Ithe consideration of the petition until the business now before the Smiate, the election of officers, was disposed of, and it went over .under the rules. f April 6.—The political debate was continued, Messrs. Bayard and Sherman bein" pitted against eacb other in defense of tfjfelr rcspective party policies. Senator Me' son got in his Boyton petition, no ob‘ Sctinn being made. '

PERSONAL AND PO^mcAIl> The cable announce tho death of Oscar de Lafayette, rrtndson of Gen. fayette, who was in Paris in 18le. ile adopted a miht ^ ttrwr} serving with distinction in -Algiers, and for his services received P,e decoration of . tho Legion of ^c"lor. After the revolution of 1848 the .Provisional Government appointed him Commissary-General of the Department of Seine-et-Marne, where he was elected Representative. After the Napoleonic coup •d’etat he resigned his office, and has since aived in comparative retirement—his •only official pdsition'at the time of his death ■being that of a Senator of France. Especial regret will be caused in America by his death •oBr. account of the anticipated pleasure of soon receiving a visit from the grandson of Lafayette, as he had been named by President Grevy as one of the representatives of the French Republic at the.forthcoming celebration of the centennial of the surrender of York town. Pierola, the former President of Peru, remains at Janja, which he calls the capital of the republic. The Chilians refuse to have anything to do with jpm, however, and a number of leading men at Lima have united tin form a provisional Government. He has Issued a letter saying that, if chosen by the people, he will do his best to renew the prosperity of Peru. The new Government will be recognized by the Chilians, but it is possible that Chilian troops will haveto support it, for the present at least. The difference between the position of the Readjustees and their opponents in Virginia on the debt question, which is made so prominent now hy the contest in the Senate, is about as follows: The McCullough •or debt-payers’ bill fixed, with the consent of •the creditors, the debt at $32,000,000, made ■coupons receivable for taxes and other dues to State, and bonds non-taxable. It fixed the rate of interest at an average of four per cent. Senator Riddleberger’s bill, which the Readjustee stand by, fixed the debtat less than $20,000,000, and made the coupons not receivable for taxes, made the bonds taxable _and the rote of interest three per cent. It was proposed to make this bill a law without the consent of the State’s creditors on the ground that it was just to both creditors and State. The Readjusters’ bill excludes from the State debt the interest accumulated during the war and resonstruction period. The McCullough biH includes this. Q The New York Spirit of tke Times has obtained from the Secretaries of State of the several States the official majorities on presidential Electors at the late election, taking in each case the Elector on each side receiving the highest number of votes. The result shows a plurality for Garfield of 3,532. ■, Gen. Grant and party sailed from Galveston for Vera Cruz on the 3d. General Lew Wallace has telegraphed the President a declination of- the South American mission, to which he was nominated.. He will remain in New Mexico to took after his mining interests. The President has decided to appoint Capt. Henry, of Ohio, United States Marehal for the Distriet of Columbia, in the place of Fred Douglass, the latter to be appointed to some other equally good place. Pension Agent Brown, of Cincinnati, is to be appointed Commissioner of Pensions in place of Bently. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Niehol, who has been nominated Commissioner, has asked the President to withdraw his nomination on account of ill-health. The Texas Legislature adjourned sine tije on the 1st. The railroad bills were mostly laid away. The Prohibition bill was ^defeated in the House. * The jury in the famous libel suit f Alice A. Early against Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago Times, returned a sealed very diet awarding $500 damages to the plaintiff. This is a virtual victory for Mr. Storey, as the suit was for $50,000 damages. At u former trial a verdict for $25,000 damages was returned, and Mr. Storey at one time offered to compromise for $6,000. It was believed in Washington on the 2d that the Voorhees-Mahone difficulty was virtually ended. Voorhees says he intends to treat any message fromMahone, whether it be a challenge or otherwise, with contempt. Mabone, full of indignation, insisted upon challenging Voorhees, but was persuaded by discreet friends that such an act would only injure him. Friends of both Senators are endeavoring to fix up a mutual explanation, but neither Voorhees nor Mahone seem inclined that way. Richard A. Cowling, a distinguished Louisville physician, died of rheumatism of the heart, aged 42. *

mrs. Li. Virginia fbencii, &n authoress of repute, died recently at her home in McMinnville, Tenn. Andrew D. White, Minister to Berlin, has tendered his resignation. The Republican Senatorial Caucus, held on the 4th, it is given out, determined almost unanimously not to abandon the .position taken with respect to the election of officers, but to insist upon the passage of the Dawes resolution. A general Impression, seemed to prevail, however, that the deadlock would be broken in some manner within a few days. Means, Democrat, has been elected Mayor of Cincinnati, by from 1,600 to 2,000 majority. The remainder of the offices are divided between the two parties. The Gazette cast its influence for Means, refusing to support Charles Jacob, Jr., the Republican candidate. The Democrats also elect their Mayors in Columbus, O., and Dubuque, Iowa, while the Republicans carry Sandusky, Dayton and other smaller cities. In To*' ledo Roineis, Motional, is re-elected Mayor, j

Secretary Blaine is investigating the arrest of Boyton in England, but be thinks all that this Government can do is to ask good treatment for the prisoner. The St. Louis municipal election resulted in a clean sweep for the Republican ticket, Ewing’s majority over Overstolz for Mayor being over 13,000, and the other Republican majorities for the candidates from 5,000 to 8,000. Carter Harrison, Democrat, hasi ■been re-elected Mayor Of Chicago by about; j 8,000 majority, and the balance of the Democratic ticket by somewhat smaller majorities. Ex-Oongressj,^ Price, of Iowa,, has been offered, and has accepted, the office; of Commissioner of Indian Affairs. The Rhode Island State election, held! on the 6th, resulted in the re-election of ai l the Republican nominees. The majority on Governor Is about 5,000. In Russia-Poland the peasants refuse to sweur allegiance iu United Greek churches. They demand to be sworn before Catholic priests, and have driven away Greek priests. The Governor of the province declares they must take the oath in Russian churches. Gen. McQoor, Who has been on Gen. Sherman’s Staff for years, has been, ordered loin his regiment at White River, and Chaplain Muffins has been ordered to take charge of education in the army. The army •Officers say Secretary Lincoln has expressed Jhe intention of revolutionizing the staff appointments. He thinks some officers have been enjoying easy berths too long, and that it is fair to give them a taste of service'and let those who have seen hard service perform staff duty awhile.

COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. The survey lor a new railroad from Buffalo to Toledo has been completed through Northern Ohio, and the right of way is being rapidly secured. The company will be called the New York, Chicago & St. Louis, and it is thought that its President will be John R. Cummings, of the- Lake Erie & Western. A contract for the construction of the line is said to have heen made with a Chicago firm, the amount involved being 19,000,000. 6 The public debt statement of April I shows a decrease of the debt during March of $6,192,819. Cash in Treasury, $280,814,092; gold certificates, $6,171,800; si her certificates, $50,ITS,900; certificates of deposit outstanding, $0,805,000; refunding certificates, $775,950; legal tenders outstanding, $346,681,016; fractional currency outstanding, $7,131,978; cash balance available, $158,680,756. Reduction of the debt since June 80,1880, $68,408,7a A meeting of Iowa farmers was held at Des Moines, on tbe 2d, to take concerted action against the alleged barb-wire fence monopoly. Anti-high-kent Leagues have been formed in Chicago, New York, Brooklyn and other large cites, to protest against; the present general advance in house rents, and especially to take some practical meaus of securing cheaper rents for working men. The steamer Harry Fraojk arrived at New Orleans on the 2d with the largest cot - ton cargo ever brought to that port—!),226 bales, besides cotton seed and other freight. Only the smoke-stacks of t|ie boat were visible. The workingmen of New York are1 demanding an increase of 50 cents a day in their wages. In many instances it has been already granted. The total coinage of the United States Mints during March was $13,05S,161, of which $2,300,000 was silver. The Governor of Tennessee has signed the bill to settle the State debt at 100.3. Tbe House passed the Senate bill to settle the debt of the extinct Municipality of Memphis at 33 1-3 cents and 4 per cent. Interest. The Iowa State Brewers’ Convention met at Dubuque on the 6th. The Missouri State AVool-Growers’ Association held their second regular meeting at Sedalia on the 6th. There were nearly 100 prominent wool-growers in attendance, and about fifty new members were received. The old officers were re-elceted. A large number of choice blooded sheep were on exhibition, and prises were awarded for the best shearer and the best fleece of wool. The Illinois and Mississippi Canal Commission has arranged for a Northwestern convention' at Davenport on May 25, the delegates to be appointed by the Governors, Boards of Trade and Farmers’ Clubs. The t object of the gathering is to invoke the aid of Congress in creating a water route from tbe Mississippi to tbe lakes. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. Andrew Brown, white, and three colored men were scalded to death, and several others injured, by the explosion of a saw-mill boiler at Berkley, Va. The boiler in a smelting works at LeadviUe exploded, fatally injuring the engineer, Wm. Collins, and seriously maiming three others. Reddy McDonald, a noted desperado, one of a gang of sixteen recently jailed atSydney, Neb., was detected in an attempt to liberate the prisoners, and was taken out and hanged by vigilantes. Miss Maggie West, an accomplished young lady living near Montlcello, Drew County, Ark., was killed by the accidental discharge of a gun. She was carrying the weapon into the house, when the trigger caught on a nail, discharging the eon tents and killing her almost instantly. Two brothers, Charles and John Miller, aged respectively 19 and 21, were shot and killed in a disreputable house at Evansville, Ind., on the night of the 3d. It Is claimed the fatal shots were fired by a man named Knapke, a friend of the keeper of the house. He is under arrest. William Hinsley was torn into fragments by the explosion of some dynamite cartridges, near Wilkcsbarre, Pa. Wm. Williams, an engineer, was badly injured by the sam e explosion. Gustav Reichfus, a wealthy bachelor, was assassinated the other night, near Monroe, O. He was sitting with his brother’s family reading a paper, when he was shot at from outside a window.

Smith T. Mansor, Passenger Agent of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, was killed near White Water, Wls., on tho St. Paul Road, on tho night of the 3d. Hefeil under the ears and had hts head cut off. He leaves a wife and one child. Francisco Timino, a sheep-herder, was lynched near Lompoc, Cal., for assaulting: and murdering Mrs. Sargent. B. F« Harrington, an outlaw, was shot and hilled in Mount Princeton, Colo., while attempting to escape from tbo of Seers. A fearful accident occurred . at Johnson’s flouring mill, Mourns County, Ark., a few day* since, resulting in the death of two men, Burrows and Jackson, and the probable fatal injury of several others, including Mr. Johnson, owner of the mill. The casualty was caused by the bursting of one of the millstones. The building was demolished by the force of the explosion. At Washington, 6a., F. Calloway was shot and killed by hia brother-in-law, A> Smith. The trouble grew out of a bustft

ness transaction, Hath of the gentlemen are prominently connected. MISCELLANEOUS. The Greeks regard the Porte’s projposed boundary line, which has received the sanction of the Powers, as being a mere Juggle. An Athens dispatch says the forces are being sent forward to the border, and hostilities can not be long postponed. The Robinson Wagon Factory, Adam Moore & Co.’s Varnish factory and the Queen City Tarnish Factory, at Cincinnati, were en* threly destroyed by fire on the 2d. Total loss about $100,000. Baca, the last of the undisposed of murderers of Conk ling, editor of the Soeorro (N. M.) Sun, was hanged by a posse on his arrival at Socorro from Old Mexico,where he had just been captured. The Governor of Arkansas has signed the bill which prohibits the carrying of any weapons except army and havy arms, and those not otherwise than openly in the hands; also the sale, bartering, giving away or other* wise disposing of pistols, revolvers, bowieknives and pistol-cartridges in the State, un» der penalties rangi ng from $50 to $200. A MOT occulted at Ballaghaderin, Ireland, on the 2d. One account says the people attacked the police, who were obliged to fire in self-defense. Two of the rioters were killed and thirty-two wounded, four of whom were not ejected to live. One policeman was killed! and several severely injured by stones. . Another account, contained in a telegram read by Dillon at a land meeting at Clough, says the police fired on the people without provocation. Two men were killed, two are dying and three were wounded.

The Cabinet at Madrid has decided to apply the Spanish Constitution and press laws to Cuba and Porto ltico. George Schmidt, aged 2 years, died from hydrophobia at Evansville, Ind., on the 3d. He was bitten about tour weeks previously. The Porte agrees to cede Kholoun to Persia,* as demanded by England and Russia in accordance with the treaty ot Berlin. A ukase has been issued at St. Petersburg ordering an election for 228 members of a temporary Council to assist the Commandant of the city. All landlords and independent tenants may vote. The late Czar had projected the extension of this plan to the whole empire. The man who it is charged made the bomb that killed the Czar has been arrested and will be tried with the other conspirators. His name is Kibaltscnitisch. A telegram-from Athens, Greece, says a strong shock of earthquake at Chio, in the island of that name, destroyed many houses and seriously damaged nearly all left standing. There was considerable loss of life. Many neighboring villages were destroyed. Shocks were also felt in'other islands, in Syria, Smyrna and at Tseme, where it is reported many people were killed. The damage done by the recent overflow of Dakota rivers is said to be incalculable. Many lives have been lost, hundreds of buildings swept away, and thousands of head of stpek drowned. Railroads are ruined, and alt sorts of property damaged. Seven lives were lost by the upsetting of a boat on ffie Ashley River, near Branchvi’le, S. C.» on the 5th. Virginia ponds were frdstBn over on the night of the 4th. It is feared the fruit crop is entirety ruined throughout a large portion of the State. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee met at Pike’s Opera-house, Cincinnati, on the t»!h. Gen. Sherman presided,and read a sketeh of the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, illustrated by maps ami charts distributed among the members. After the day’s session was concluded, the Society assisted at the unveiling of the McPherson statue in Fountain Square. The recent deaths from trichinosis at Hoboken, N. J., it is now alleged were due to eating sausage imported from Germany. The Parkison Hotel at Orange, Fla., has been destroyed by fire. All the guests escaped- The loss is $12,000. The Chilians threaten to levy $20,000 | eaeh on fifty Peruvians as a sort of war indemnity. The Peruvians protest, but it is not likely that their protest will have much effect. The Khomnis and other Berber tribes threaten some of the French settlements in Algiers, and French troops have been dispatched to the frontier to act against them. The damage in Spain by floods is estimated at $1,000,000, and thirty thousand persons are said to be.in want ot provisions. , CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Senator Vance represented the Democratic side in the Senate debate on the 7th, the burden of his speech being a defense of North Carolina on the debt question. Mr. Kellogg replied for the Republicans, and a somewhat lengthy and heated discussion followed, which drew out Messrs. Ransom, Call, Harris, Sherman, Beck, Dawes and Ilonr. At the end of this discussion, on motion of Mr. Burnside, the Senate adjourned until Monday—yeas, 38 ; nays, lti—the negative votes being cast by Democrats. Gladstone introduced the Irish Land bill in the House of Commons oi$ the 7th, accompanied by a speech of over two hours’ duration, at the close of which he was loudly cheered. The Grand Duke Nicholas Constantinovitz has been arrested and interned in the eastle belonging to his father, the Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the late Czar, near St Petersburg, on suspicion of being concerned in political intrigues in favor of his father. lit is not known whether the latter was a party to the intrigues. Earthquakes continue at Ohio, destroying houses not iqjured by the first thock and rendering thetc>wn uninhabitable. The rolling-mill at Topeka, Kans., owned jointly by the Union Pacific and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fo Railway Companies, burned on the evening of the 7th. Iboss about $100,000. From 200 to 300 m<n lire thrown out of employment. Archbishop Fkehan of Chicago was formally inducted into his exalted office on Ihe 7th, with most impressive ceremonies. Six Bishops and 120 clergy participated in Ihe exercises, whieh took place in the presence of a large audience at the Cathedral ot the Holy Name.

David Ross, arrested on suspicion of murdering John Barenberg, a wealthy bachelor farmer of Greenfield, O., has confessed ube crime, but claims to have hilled him in iielf-defense. Ross formerly worked for :Uarenberg, and has not a very good reputation. At Snnbury, Fa., while Mrs. Hover and family were at dinner, her daughter, aged 17, and son, aged 14, quarreled. The boy left the table, and returning with ashotgun, fatally shot his sister. The boy gives at a reason for committing the crime, “They would not give me enough to eat." A strike of street-car conductors and drivers in Chicago on the 7th caused a complete stoppage of all the ear lines on the West Side. It is reported that ex-Gov. Thomas A. Osborn, of Kansas, is to be recalled from Hite Chilian Mission and the position given Ho Gen. Kilpatrick, of Sew Jersey, who ftirmerly held it.

How a Father A Tensed the Harder of His Sons. OrriCEKs from ibis State have just returned from Texas with old man Dahlgreen, arrested on a charge of murder, who has a most remarkable history. He lived before the war in the northern part of Tennessee. His home was a pleasant one, and with his wife and two sbns he lived very happily on his farm until a quarrel arose between neighbors. The difficulty was patched, but one of the sons—both of whom had grown to man's estate—conceived tfca he had been wronged, and one day while he and his brothor were passing alongthe road in a wagon they came up with five men. their neighbors, and the quarrel broke out afresh. The young men were courageous, find would not be intimidated by their opponents. Hot words led to blows, and the live men, pulling pistols, fired upon the Dahlgreen boys and killed them. They ran away, and, fearing the vengeance of old mdn Dahlgreen—for he whs even then considered quite an old mandisappeared from the community. Of course Dahlgreen and his wife were nearly distracted at the sad death of their “ boys,” of whom they were very proud, and Mrs. Dahlgreennevor recovered from the blow, but about the time the war broke %ut died, and the husband whs left to lament the separation of his family. He conceived the idea that nothing was left In this life for him oxcept to obtain vengeance on the men who had robbed him of his sons. He devoted the remainder of his life to this purpose. He began systematically to search for the firo men. whose names were Grhlley, Black, Hewitt, Meyers and a man called "Black Tom,” but whose true name was Lurdy, and one after another was met and killed. He had no scruples, no conscience. His sols object was to put the villains who made life no object to him out of the way. He took no interest in the war. It mattered not whether the North or South were victors. Ho shot Meyers and Lurdy in Tennessee, and escaped the officers who were set upon his track. The old man disappeared from his country, and no traces of him were heard for several years. The man Gridiey died of pneumonia in Cincinnati, and Black is serving out a term in the State Penitentiary at Columbus, for burglary. ' The last of these >men. Hewitt, was slowly but surely tracked by Dahlgreen to Colorado, and in a little towii on the frontier of the State, at Coyote, he. camo up with him and shot him in cold blood, after he had thrown up his hands and asked for mercy. The little Community was terribly excited about the murder, and started officers on the ti-aek of Dahlgreen, who threw them off the scent. No more was heard of him until last month, when Information was received that he was in Houston, Tex., and there he was arrested, —Denver (Cut.) Cer. Cincinnati Timei-Star.

At Sen in a Balloon. M. Aiaioth, the editor of the Phare du Lfcloru!, gives an interesting account of his recent adventures in the balloon Gabriel, in company with Captain Jovis and Lieutenant Vivier. The balloon, which started from Nice, France, in the morning, rapidly rose to a height of #,800 feet. The view was at first magnificent. The Alps and a great part of Switzerland were distinctly visible and the air was warm. But the clouds and a thick mist soon hid everything from view, afid when, by degrees, and in Spite of every effort to prevent it, the balloon descended, the party found to their horror that they we. e about, nine miles out at sea, when they had all along believed themselves fib be goiug steadily in a northeasterly direction. "Once or twice the Gabriel was induced to rise again for a short time, but it soon returned to the water, and, although anchor, ballast, bags, boots and every article of any weight were thrown from the car, it remained qtwtiuatoiy wedded t®«tt» ,t ow elfe ment. At times the balloon seudded a'oag at a great rate, though the lower portion* of the ear was submerged, the water, which had at first only been ankle deep, finally ri-iug sufficiently high to stop M. Atlioth's watch in his waistcoat pocket, at 5.cS iu the afternoon. Night found the unfortunate travelers in even a worse plight, and, to add to their difficulties, the ear began to rook with the waves, and, although numbed wi h the bitter cold, they were, compelled to hold on tightly for bare life. At intervals they shouted together, but it was labor lost, and no answer was returned. At last, to their great delight, they espied the ml of an Italian craft bearing down upon them. A boat wts sptedily launched, and they were scon on board, in dry clothes and: making a hearty supper. The ship p oved to be the Motosiui, found from Naples to Cette ihe Captain had, it appears, perceived the balloon during the afternoon, and had actually gone out of his oourse for several hours in Ihe hope of rescuing its passengers. But the balloon sped along much faster than he, and Signor Fenieili was obliged to give up the chase. The meeting in the dark was thus pure accident. The balloon had drifted abou t while the ship hud held to its course. The unlucky occupants of the Gabriel were picked up about half-way between the ma’nland and Corsica, and but for the timely appearance ol the Morosini they must inevitably have been lost. As it was, MM. Jovis and AUioth were terribly exhausted by all they bad gone through. The party were lauded at Vlitafranea at 9:30 on the following morning, and their reappearance a Nice was the signal for a general ovation, their friends having despaired of ever beholding them again. As for the balloon, as soon as they had quitted the csir it shot onee more into the air with lightr ning speed, and. may be careering still for all any on# knows to the contrary, A Canadian's Remedy for Talking Too Much. Kingston. Out., April 4. Francois Charon, a Frenchman, being impressed with the fact that he had made too much use of his tongue, cut off a portion of it last evening. The bleeding was profuse, the man becoming faint from the loss of blood before assistance was secured. He said that be had talked too much and ho was getting himself into trouble. He had been told by some person “that ho should have a piece of his tongue taken off,” and he proceeded to adopt the advice. He first took a razor to perform the operation, but this was taken away from him. After a time he took a common awl and drove it through the tip of his tonguo, splinting the latter for about half an inch. He next took a common Jackknife and cut away part of the papilla. While in a frenzy from his sufferings he attempted to hang himself, but was saved by his wife. He was very determined about cutting out his tongue. He told a reporter that it caused him any amount of difficulty, and he felt that it would be safer to extract it. Since his exploit he thinks he didn't go about the business right, but if be had a good instrument he believed he would ha ve succeeded. For many years he has been under the belief that the tongue b the bane of all evil, and for weeks he has refused to speak a word.

a KemarKabie elopement. A recent Richmond (Va.l dispatch says: “The moat remarkable wedding on record took p’uce here yesterday evening, the elreumst faces of which would furnish good material for a novelist's plot. Westland Pierce, a young gentleman of this p’aeo. has for som e time past been in love with Miss Daisy Shoemaker. the pretty daughter of a well-known farmer living near this place. The young lady’s parents objected, but the ardent lover persuaded bis sweetheart, who was, under twenty-one years, to agree to elope with him. It was agreed that she should take her fat tier’s buggy and drive into the adjoining county. where her loser would bo waiting with a magistrate and witnesses to consummate the marriage. Yesterday morning, whoa the time came for Miss Daisy to atari, her courage failed, and she would not go. Her sister. Miss Jane, a bewitching brunette, two years h?r senior, who was in the plot, begged her to keep her tryst with her lover, but ail in vain. ‘ Well, if you don't keep your word with West. Pferua I’ll do it for you,’ she said, and, indignantly leaving her sister, she got in t he buggy and dashed over, despite the screams of her sister, who could not divine hex purpose. Miss Jane reached the waitingplace. J&cplanations were made. She said she was willing to take her sister’s place. The lover, touched Toy her pluck and captivated by her determination not to let the plan fall through, did actually ■Hirryhef.". ‘ .. ' i '' -

Hot a Fit Associate for Honorable Hen. General Mahone was chosen to represent the State of Virginia in the United States Senate. He iiad always acted / with the Democratic party of the State# and been recognized and treated as a Democrat. For two or three years the Democrats of that State have divided on the question whether the whole State debt should be paid, or a compromise be effected on some mutually satisfactory basis. There h*S . been an intense feeling in the State on this local issue, and the excitement ran so high that two sets of Democratic electors were nominated last fall. But both factions were Democrats, both of them supported General Hancock, and both of them maintain their fealty to the Democratic party of the Union. The Readjusters, as they call themselves, outnumbered the Debt-payers, secured control of the Legislature, and elected General Mahone to the Senate. General Mahone was elected as a Democrat from an overwhelmingly Democratic State. He could not have been elected had he not been supposed to be a Democrat. He would have been Voted down in disgrace had it been supposed that his tirst act as Senator would be to go over to the Republicans. A few weeks ago, when it was found that the two parties would be nearly evenly balanced in the Senate, there were intimations that Senator Mahone was negotiating with the Republicans. It was reported hy Republican correspondents that he would vote with the Republicans on condition that he should be allowed to distribute the Federal patronage in Virginia. His local paper, which is understood to be his personal organ, denied the report. But after taking his Senatorial oath he selected a seat on the Republican side of the chamber, declined to take part in the Democratic caucus, kept aloof from Democratic Senators, became inereas

mgty intimate witn Republicans. and is repotted to be in great favor at the White House. Yesterday the Republicans claimed that they had a majority in the Senate, counting the vote of VicePresident Arthur, who, according to established precedent, is permitted to vote in the matter of organization in case of a tie! But were the seats all filled the Republicans would have only thirty-seven Senators, while the Democrats have thirty-eight, and Senator Davis, though an independent, had declared that in the matter of organization he should vote with the latter. ■ Under these circumstances it Was obvious that the Republicans had gained over one Democratic Senator, and the speech of Senator Hili brought Mahone to his feet with the confession that he was the guilty man. Yet he claimed to be a better Democrat then the thirty-seven Obstinate Senators who maintained their principles and loyalty to their constituents! He dragged" the local Issue of Virgina politics into the Senate, where it does not belong, but was confronted by Senator Hill with the declaration, Which he could not deny, that he was elected as a. Democrat by Democrats because he was a Democrat. And he dropped into his seat like a whipped ppwysL He has betrayed, hia trust, proved a traitor to his constituents, and Stands before the country with*“Sold” indelibly branded on his forehead. There is a small pretense of independence manufactured in his behalf. Independence of what P What is this ipan independent of? He was elected as a Democrat Is he independent of his convictions and principles? He was eho-en by Democrats to represent a Democratic State. Is he independent of honor and integrity? It is folly for for him to claim that his political views have changed since his election so that he is a Democrat no longer; he makes no such pretense. He is a Democrat still, but he is independent of Democracy. A traitor, but not a man. He no longer represents Virginia, and -is not a tit associate for honorable men.— Y. Express. Til? Republicans and Mahone. The vote necessary to organize the Senate in the interest of the Republican party has been obtained from Virginia, in the person of Senator Mahone—hitherto held up to scorn by the largest portion of the Republican party as a repudiator. We do not suppose thaVcven Senatoi Conkling, with all his audacity, will claim for a moment that there is anything natural in such a union. Neither do we imagine that whatevci claim is made or assurance given—any considerable number of the intelligent, reading portion of tho people of the United States will be induced to believe that Mr. Mahone’s course is not the result of a very vulgar trade—a trade which soils and disgraces both parties. The Republican party never stands upon trifles in its grasp of power. Noi is it at all particular who contributes to it, nor what the means. Mr. Hayes may steal it or Mr. Mahone sell it—it takes and then excuses or mildly regrets. Neither is there in the entire organization one part or parcel more scrupulous t han the whole. To hear the mukfaced Hoar talk at a college-commence-ment, one would suppose that he would sooner consent to the loss of all his possessions than incur the taint of evildoing; and yet, if the Republican party wanted a job of political thievery well and quietly done, the venerable Hoax could out-Turpin Jack Shepherd. It would, of course, be more' in his Jiue to attract the attention of the victims by prayer while his pals were “cracking the crib,” but, other means failing, Massachusetts' venerable milksop woitld not be fonnd wanting. The lesson of the Mahone business, as dirty as it is, is that the Republican party never rejects an opportunity. It prefers always to apologize for the use of one rather than deplore its loss.

as any nine uuring me last tear mo Democrats in the Senate could have unseated Kellogg, and thus made their majority sureTont there were a dozen men who believed such a course would be unjustifiable, and hence refused to consent to it. How long Mr. Hoar or Mr. Conklin? would have hesitated in such a case their action of the last few days may indicate. We do not complain of the result of the Mahone business. On the contrary, we are cpiite certain it will be profitable and satisfactory. It will be an edifying spectaole to see the very proud Senator of the proud State of New York made Chairman of the Commerce Committee by the sihgle Vote of—Mahone. The-e are forty other chairmen who will be made such by the same vote, and who will be taught, from time to time, that the power which makes can also uutnakeIt is much better, therefore, that the Democrats be relieved of the responsibility of legislation, as well as of many other things which depond upon it. As a minority in both Houses of Congress, the Democrats can amount to, something., They cgn always take ad-1

vantage of the mis takes of their opponents. And chief among their mistakes—tht one which will injure them the most— whose results will be the most pernicious because sure to infect unseen, will be the union effected with* such a person as Mahone—who represents, if Republican orators have not lied on a million stumps and poured falsehoods through the columns of thousands of journals—the boldest type of debt repudiation.—1< ash i.ugton tost. dive It a Fair Chance. Yes, give it a fair chance, and judge it impartially. It began March 4 1881. Ten days from its beginning, to wit, March 14, 1881, the nomination of Stanley Matthews of Ohio for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States was sent to the Senate. This nomination had once been made by Acting President Hayes and not confirmed. It was a nomination not fit to be made. Jay Gould himself uuder his own pame on the bench, would be preferable. By this we mean no disparagement of Jay Gould, whom we regard, in his own place and in his own way, as far superior to many c>f the Pecksniffs who are constantly denouncing him. But all would agree that Jay Gould would bd out of his place on the bench of the Supreme Court. Stanley Matthevrs would, to say the least, be just as much out of place. The new Administration is to be judged by its acts. For this act of nominating Stanley Matthews a Ions black mark will be made against it all over the land and in every part thereof. It is an attempt to degrade the bench. TheCampbelliteChurchshould take it up and discipline General Garfield_if. Y. SUn.

POLITICAL POINTS. -—Excerpt from the extra loyal Philadelphia iVess.- “This way, hlahone's men!” was the little general's battle-cry in front of Petersburg. The Virginians seem to be going his way again.” They were then lighting for secession. What are they doing now? They were then killing boys in blue. It is hoped that they are not continuing this treasonable practice.— Cincinnati Enquirer. » -As far as it was practicable Presi* dent Garfield has reconciled the irreconcilable. The Northwest has three Cabinet officers, New England one, the Middle States two and the South one. There were special reasons in each case. President Garfield, it may be surmised, appointed Biaine to please Blaine, Win* dom to please Conkliqg, Lincoln to please Grant and Logan, James to please the Civil Service' Reformers, Hunt to please the South, MacVeagh to tiekle. the Camerons without displeasing their opponents in Pennsylvania and Kirkwood to please himself.—Charleston (S. G) JXews. '—y**be official pamphlet of the Republican National Committee containing the account of the Chicago Convention shows that the vote which nominated Garfield came—215 from from Blaine, 98 from Sherman, 18 from Washburne, 11 from Edmunds, 7 from Grant and 3 from Windom. When the time came for a Presidential recognition of the work done at Chicago the 3 votes of Windom became equal, after the manner of lotteries, to the 215 of Blaine, and, on the same principle, the 7 Grant votes embodied in Robert Lincoln turned out to be worth more than the 11-1-18--98 of Sherman, Edmunds and Washburne, But what is to be done with the original and faithful 2 who started Garfield and stuck to him through the thick of Conkling’3 rhetoric and the thin of Eugene Hale’s oratory ?—N. T. World. -It is interesting to see the Republicans go for the man they resorted to unheard-of frauds and crimes to put into the Presidency. The Boston Traveller says: “ lmperator Titns was the delight of the human race, bat President Hayes has not been the delight of that part of the human race which does its voting in these United States. He is t he com pie test, specimen of a breakdown that our Presidential history affords. ‘Policy’ ruined him. He I wished for a second term as soon as he had entered on a ‘one-term’ Presidency; and to clear the wav for a renomination he supposed it would bo necessary to set up something that should be peculiarly his own., and that could be politically patented. He found his level when nis term was ahont half over, and himself altogether used np. There never was a deader man in the Presidential chair than General Hayes in ’79-81.” ——The nominations of Mr. Evarts and of Mr. Thurman as Commissioners to the Monetary Conference \yVeh is to be held in Paris in April will cu.umand the cordial approval of intelligent men of all parties. Mr. Evarts has made a special and thorough study of the subject of the bi-metallic standard during his term of service as Secretary of State. That the conference in question is to be held at all is largely due to his exertions, and his mesence at its sessions cannot fail to nave a decisive influence upon the results of the conference. He will find in Mr. Thurman a coadjutor cordially in sympathy with the views which he is known to entertain, and what may be called the American side of thb grave questions to be discussed at the conference will be presented, we may be sure, in" a manner to command the respectful attention not only of the States which now hold to the bi-metallic standard, but of Englapa and of Germany also.— N. T. World.

—<—A correspondent has hastily compiled a classified list of the “horde of office seekers'’ ths.t are acting as substitutes for the alleged “Hancock hordes,” who, in case of his election, were to have infested Washington. The result is given as follows: Number of men who attonded schcol and college with GarBeid.1,9®) Number of men who held him in their laps while an infant. 829 Number of men who gave him good advice.‘._*. 430 Number of men who loaned him money in the happy days of his youth .,... T42 Number of men who recollect rescuing him from drowning. 82 Number of men wbo pulled him out of a sink-hole, into which he had rolled when an infant.-. 13 Number of men who loaned him horses to ride to church..,.*.—.. 140 Number of men .who “knew him when he was a boy"......8,830 Number of those who recollected to have predicted that he would some day be President.■. .8,323 Number of captains of canal-boats under whom Garfield worked as driver of the leading mule.. .. ... 82 Number of men who worked with him In theeanal-boatbusiness .. :.. ..,. IE Number of editors who “first nominated " him for the Presidency ....... —. 830 Number of writers who had editorials written nominating him but left out by ‘pressure pf other matter.".. , ®l —Detroit PrxtSi

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. —About a quarter of the Vermont towns have elected women as Superintendents of Schools. —There is a society in Berlin for the propagation of the Jewish faith, which is a new thing in Israel's history. —Yale College began conferring degrees in 1704, and since that time has given them to 11,930 individuals, ex-, elusive of 923 honorary degrees. —Upward of 2,220 young girls are at present attending the painting and drawing; classes in State municipal schools in France, while 1,950 are studying music in the various colleges. —The University of Chicago is in serious difficulty, being unable, notwithstanding the rigorous efforts of its President, Dr. tialusha Anderson, to raise the money needed for its relief. —Thu Duke of Edinburgh asserts that in the English public schools those bo>s who are most proficient in healthful exercises, like cricket and football, are not behind the others in their studies. —A German commission has been engaged since 1371 in revising Luther’s translation of th« Bible. The final reading will be completed next September, atter which the text will be nrintmi.

—The death-list of ministers of the Presbyterian Church has been very large since the meeting of the General Assembly nine months ago. It numbers seventy-one, against seventy-sis in the previous twelve months. —The State of Virginia has 4,854 public schools, 205 of which are graded, and 1,25® colored schools. The attendance during the past year was 220,736, bf which number 68,600 were colored pupils, these being taught by 785 colored teachers. In all, there are 4,873 teachers, and the expenditures for 1883 amounted to nearly $1,000,000. —The Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women has a membership of 256, at a fee of two dollars per member. The aim of the Society is to aid and encourage deserving young women in their endeavors to obtain a eollegiate education. Lectures are delivered monthly before the mem bers. Spring Mantles. The more dressy wraps take the shapes of mantles, acd these vary from the tiniest shoulder capes to large shirred garments. The small capes are exceedingly stylish when .made quite straight across the back, reaching barely over the turn of the shoulders and having narrow ends pointed' below the waist in front. These are made of black camel’s hair or satin, silk or Surah, and are elaborately trimmed around the ueck with high platted frills of lace, ruches of passementerie, beading and fringe; a simple trimming is on the lower edge. Other capes are merely large round collars, like the fur cellars worn during the winter^pnd others are enlarged to the size of the fur pelerines so popular at present. These are always black, with many rows of narrow plaited lace at the top and wider lace plaited on the edge, upon which beaded ornaments like fringe are pendent. Of course there is very little warmth in such garntents, and they will be worn merely to give a dressy tinish to handsome costumes on the street. This full high trimming about the neck and shoulders is now considered very stylish,, and is so generally becoming thitit will be worn by stout and slender ladies alike, provided always the figure is tine. The shirred mantle of black satin mervailieux, satin Surah, or Sicilienne, is the most elegant and expensive garment for the spring. It ia made much shorter than the shirred eloaks worn during the winter—such as the Mother Hubbard and the Direetotre—but is similarly shaped. The shirring is in many rows around the neck, across the middle forms of the back and about the Ml wide sleeves. In many cases there are no scams on the shoulders, and the shaping is done by two long seams from the back of the neck down, and a seam under each arm. Some shapes have merely a large slit eut for an armhole, and a"wide shirred piece^sewed in this slit does duty as a sleeve. *, In some mantles there are six or eight rows t>f starring around the neck litre a collar, with standing plaiting lace above, and the only other shirring is then a wide, cluster just below the waist line in the middle form of the back. Still others have three or four shirred clusters across the back forms, with the spaces between laid in plaits, and these extend the whole length of the back. A large bow of black satin ribbon is placed just below the waist line behind, and there are smaller bowsyem each sleeve and at the throat. Spanish lace promises to be the favorite for trimming these mantles, and is used in full gathered and in plaited frills. Passementeries and galloons, with jet and without, are ftsed for bending laces and for fringe-like drops amid the plaitings. There are also new frfeiges of chenille like the seal-skin fringe worn during the winter, but of lighter quality, with full silk fringe beneath to support the chenille strands. An entire hood of Spanish lace is one of the pretty ornaments for such cloaks, and a great deal of jetted Spanish lace is used for trimming. Sometimes the whole piece put in the armhole for a sleeve is covered with Spanish lace plaitings. Some new patterns of brocaded satin, especially those in leaf, star, and almond designs, are used for very handsome mantles, though the reader is warned that it is far safer to buy a plain fabric, that is, not figured.

uiouifico uiauc U4 iuu Cheviots and cloths described above for jackets in the shirred styles just noted for mantles, and these will be chosen in preference to jackots for general wear, except by very young ladies and misses. The full bishop sieeve, shirred at the band, and again where it joins the middle forms of the back, is seen in these Cheviot mantles. The draped cords, low on the back forms, also trim such garments, and the hoods and edges show glimpses of ombre striped satin Surah, or else there is plain red or blue Surah edging plaitings of the cloth. A pretty mantle, with the deep Havelock cane that has only one seam behind, is trimmed with smalt plaited fans of striped satin Surah let in near the edges of the cape and of the lower part of the garment; the Cheviot has a melange of many colors, and the stripes show dull goM, with a little red and g.’een, yet it a all so toned down that the effect is harmonious and quiet. The square folded sleeves, falling plain from the elbow down, and cutm the garment instead of being inserted at an armhole, are seen, on •nanv*bf these wraps, some of which are entirely withgap shirring, while others have the middle back forms elaborately shirred, or else merely in a single cluster. There are very graceful spring wraps in many oftiie new styles to be had for $9.50 or $%&ui the newest Cheviots in shirred Mange {rom $10 tr. $25,-,^. ' ■ ' .v' tm

FACTS AND FIGURES. —There are 23,000 feminine farmers in Great Britain, —A Philadelphia candy factory uses seven tons of elay per month. V —About 109,000 bushels of hemp seed are annually consumed tor bird food in the United States. —A rich discovery of gold and silver quartz has been made on Vancouver’s Island, and specimens have been sent to San Francisco to be assayed. —The price of railway ties for the past three vears has ranged from 23 to 30 cents. The price for 1831 will be from 30 to 35 cents. -w" —The Postal Union, accord1 ng to a report from Berne, now includes 69 States and Colonial groups, possessing a population of 730.000,000. of which 280,000,000 are British subjects. „ —In the matter of telegraph poles, » Chicago furnishes 103.0J0 annually, or one-half of the entire number consumed in the United States. These are shipped from there to as remote points as Montana, New Orleans, Whee'ing, Va., Buffalo and Syracuse. * • *

—r.arge quantities ol pottery are manufactured in Brazil from the hard, silicious bark of the caraipe tree. In the process the ashes of the bark are powdered and mixed with the purest clay that can be obtained from the beda of the rivers—this kind being preferred, as it takes up a larger quantity of ihe ash, and thus produces a stronger kind of ware. —f —It is affirmed by the collectors of statistics in regard to intemperance that in the year 1879 there was paid out for intoxicating drinks by the people of Germany the sum of $6)0,000,000, and by those of France $5SO,(X)0,000, of Great Britain $750,000,000, and of the United States $720,000,000—making a grand total of $2,700,00 *,000. —When Mr. Edward Whymper was on this side of Chimborazo,, in the .course of an exploration of the peaks of the Andes, in Equador, he saw a grand eruption of Cotopaxi. Ashes rose in a column not less than 20,00o feet above the rim of the crater, and then expanded over an area of many miles. Two million tons of matter were ejected in this single eruption, and the particles of the ashes were so tine, in some samples, it required not loss than 23;000 to make a grain in weight. —The Davidson County mines in North Carolina have yielded half of all the gold dug east of the Mississippi ltiver, and the iron deposits are regarded as inexhaustible. In asking for the emigration of skilled laborers the State points to 66 cottoit 'hud woolen mills. 260 tobacco factoHes, 2*1 iron foundries, 19 furnaces, the foundations of more mills; to be. built this summer. North Carolina is only fourteen hours’ ride from New York City, and it is claimed that the cost of a journey from here to the West will buy a good farm down there. dinnen iiitdcbed. WIT AND WISDOM. —Turn about is fair play in a circus. )—Eve was a side-splitting joke to Adam. —Why cannot wc solve the prBblein of life? Because we all have to give it up. 4/ —The fellow made a bad bull when he went to steal a squash and got gourd. —Kerosene oil will fuddle as well as whisky. Anyhow it makes a locomotive’s head light. —What is an island? A body surrounded by water. Give an example: A boy in swimming;. —You can tell a merciful farmer as soon as he stops his team at a post. He takes the blanket off his wife's Lap and spreads it over the poor horses.—Detroit free tress. —“Been vafceinated, Misa Black?” “Yes, indeed. Mr. White. I should just hate to die of that nasty small-pox. Why, they say that if you die of it you must be buried in the middle of the night, and nobody goes to the funeral!” “How very, very sad it is lor the corpse, to be sure!” - —The New Orleans Picayune thinks it a great pity that some of the few ladies who paint their pretty laces do not devote ' a little study aa to whero the coloring should be put. They shou.d know that upon the cheek bones is the p’ace for the rouge, not along the line of the jaw-bone, and they should also know, as perhaps they do, that their artifice gene rally'f aits to deceive—Colonel Hamilton Milton is celebrated at Galveston as being able to eat more without a rest than any other two men in the city. Of late his evesight has become affected. Giihobly asked him the other day if he experienced any serious inconvenience. “1 should say 1 did. I can’t read the bill of fare like I used to. Yesterday l overlooked two kinds of soup and slipped up on the custard pie,, I can -never tel) now when I am through dinne Samuel Shin Sq [Extract fromAroent 1’roeeediuKS at Detroit %ime<iln Club-1 Samuel Shin had for some time been moving about in an uneasy manner, and as soon as the President sat down he jumped up^uid presented the followlowing resolution: “Resawd. Dat de present jrroat need ot dis kentry am an airly sprinc.” « Brother Gardner waited half a minute to hear if an yone favored the resolution, and then said:

“Bruaaer bnin, you am a good man behind a buck-saw, an’ yon kin handle a white-wash brush wid grace an’ strategy, an’ it makes me sorry to see yon bite off more dan yon can chaw, when it comes to regulatin’ the weather. How do you know what dis kentry needs? In de course of a day yon move ober four or live miles of groun’, an’ you go home wid de idea dat you know what de hull. world am sighin’ arter. When de Lawd gits ready to resign de makin’ of de weather into de hands of man dis club will present your name an’ vote fur you, but unlit dat to»c comes you had better put yer airly spring resolution in yer pocket an’ sot down.” , Brother Shin wilted away like a pansy hit by the breath of an iceberg, and the President continued: •* We will now go home. We will let natur’ go ahead wid her rain au'.glysh an’ snow or mud, or she kin septus gentle breeaes an' red roses. Wfi am simply dead-headed passengers, aid it am not fur ns to" blow about bo.vfjde masheen am ran. Let de lights bn p out, de stove shel; up, an’ all rememp dat de fo’th s(air from do, bolton liable to smash out if you b’ar yer ^ weight on it.”—Detroit Free Frees, i, —Good feeding and care are- best with even scrub stqek, but impiwreq stock makes the best profit in propor; tipntothe food and care, as it I ‘ more eipidlj and is o<-■*" ~ qualify