Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 30, Bloomington, Monroe County, 26 September 1883 — Page 4

NEWS CONDENSED.

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Itot Swift, Director of Vwwt OV ervsloty? t Booheatar, la reported to have discovered a oomes Is tbe oonatalMlon Draoo. Some miners who vera discharged at Haielton, Pa, threatened to destroy the property at the oompaav. Tkey fought the constabulary with pistols, a woman and girl beta)? killed ead. several officers and miners tajeiEOa? Bam and frost km rained a large portion of the Vermont hop crop. Fire at Brooklyn, N. T., destroyed W. A. Boytta Co. 'hat works, Charles E. Bt watt's aorelty straw-hat factory, and two soar dam ooildtags. involving a Ion of 135,000" For a parse of $2,000. to beat the reoetdef 2:U, Jay-Eye-See, at Kanaaaaset Park, Providence, trotted the mile in 8:10? Be showed no signs of distress at the

William Rockafeller'B team, Cleora and independence, are reported to hare mad a 2:17 record on the Charter Oak Park track, at Hartford, Ct Junius Brutus Booth, tho actor and theatrical manager, died at hia home m

The Ber. James Kemlo, a Methodist minister, quarreled with his wife at her mother residence in Brooklyn, X, X, eat her throat with a carver, then drew the weapon aeroaa Us own seek and jumped out of a 4-atorj window. Both will die it is claimed br his friends that Kemlo was

Wallach Brothers, vancy-gqeds dealera, assigned at Sew York, giving; preferences tor f!21,58H. i During a fireman's parade at Patereon, K. X, tho silk-mill of R. 4 8. Adams was damaged to the extent of 4a,000 by flames. Flames broke out in the basement of Koa 537 and K Broadway, Hew York, and soon destroyed the building. It cost 5C0,0J0 some Tears ago, and the mercantile firms oocujiylBg It report losses aggregating The' will of Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, baijiitsstln property ttnoiinttnyto i6,ooo,ooa ' The failnre is announced of Bradford Lewis A Boa, card-board manufacturers, of Walpole, Staaa., whose assets and liabilities balance at 950,000

Jadge Edgarton has decided, at Yankton, that the Dakota Capital Commisirfon la not a legal organization. Margaret Mather's engagement at XoVicker's Theater, OMeago, has financially exceeded that of last year. Her "Juliet" nights ha been tbs most profitable ones ever known in the theater. The Madison Square Company, with "Esmeralda," sneceeda Hiss Matter at KcYicker'a. The cast fa a strong oae, incladizig Joseph Wheelock, Ben. lfajrmley and Kate Benin. John McCulloagh begins an engagement at the theater on the 24th Inst Melinda Pope, who recently married William Cotton in Milwaukee.' has-petitioned for divorce, on the ground that she thought bswMwekUaffkiettha, who ieoks exactly like him. The people of Cheyenne ornamented a telegraph pale with the body of Henry Kosher, who had killed hia companion with an ax as he- lay arteep. The Mayor aud tha Territorial Secretary made a vain appeal to the vigilantes, only thirty of whom oat of 9X0 were masked, Christopher Mann, of Independence, Ho., had the aid of eighty-five descendants in celebrating bis IOSth birthday. Of seventeen living children, one is .2 and another 17. Charles McComas, the boy whose parents were fhmghtered, and who was taken into captivity by the Apaches, has been rescued according to a report from Mexico. Two belligerent cowboys were slain by a stocky Mexican st TJte Creek, Cot. He wai promptly filled with lead by the victims' companions. J. B. Prnden, a mailcarrier of Bead wood and Miles City, his stocktender Jack Harris and two cowboys, while play.'ng cards at Uttie Missouri, Dak. , became inTui ted tnaqnarrel, when all agreed to settle ttbyaghtiiia? A man named OWeU, Prnden, and Harris started out in advance, when the cowboys began firing, wherenpou Prnden, and Harris turned and fired, killing one cowboy instantly and mortally wounding the ether, Thomas Hayes, a Texas cattle-king, was killed at Coleman, in that State, by a saloon-keeper named Pendleton, Jesus Mason, a rich cattieraiaer, was killed at his ranch in the Zuni mountains, without provocation, by a Navajo Indian, Friends of the dead man promptly dispatched his

The Piegan Indians, after a conference wita. Senator Test and Delegate afagnuns, agreed to cede to toe Government a large tract from their reservation, and requested to be furnished with cattle and

Tho brewing firm of Anthony &

Kahn. of Bt Louis, bis suspended, with liaWHtjes of nearly i0a,COO. the chief creditors being two banks.

Drought has destroyed the peanut erop in Virginia, entailing a loss of r-300,000. In some sections enough will be raised for seed next year. Judge Mayo, of Westmoreland county, Ya, rbot htasStt dead while on board the steamer Virginia, near Fortress Monroe. He told a clergy man who accompanied him bout his political disagreements with Us sons, one of whom la a member of Congress elect, and said he felt like ending his troubles by Mewing out his brains. Dispatches from Marshall, Texas, state tbs the white farmers in the vicinity of Lengviewawe terribly excited over a raid bettered to be coateaaplated by the negroes. Planters were guarding their families la ginbousea, and arms were being secured for every white man. H. A. Ramsey, of the Yolean Iron Works, at Baltimore, Md., has made an as-

WASHXSGZOsT.

Washington officials decided not to seudasearch-and-ak) party tins winter to the Gredy expedition, and the men will C3 compelled to subsist as best they can until the middle of next summer. Many are disponed to think, with Simon Cameron, that if the North poles was discovered we would not know what to do with is. Some of lies, Garllngton'a friends are disposed to think that his critic have been unnecessarily and unwarrantedly severe on him. They express confidence that a full knowledge of aU the (acts In his case wfll vindicate his

Although polar explorers have volunteered their services, Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln perceive no feasible way to relieve Lieut, (freely this fall POLTTICAX. The New York republican State Convention was catted to order at Bichfte'.d Springs by John P. Smyth. Senator Lapbam presided. Among the delegates who failed to appear were George William Curtd Wnttelaw Held, Thomas C. Piatt and Gen. Sharps. Senator Lapham was called to the chair, and made a few remarks which evoked hearty cheers. A platform was adopted, eulogizing President Arthur and calling for' a moderate protective tariff and the taxation of corporations. The following ticket was placed in nomination: Secretary of State, Gen. Joseph & Carr; Comptroller, Ira Davenport; State Treasurer, Pliny J, Sexton; State Engineer and Surveyor, Silas Seymour; Attorney General, Leslie W. BosaeS. -The Maryland Democrats met in convention at Baltimore and nominated Bobert McLano for Governor, C D. Koberts for Attorney General, and J. Frank Turner for Comptroller. The platform declares that the inauguration of Hayes and Wheeler was brought about by fraud, and says the methods used by Garfield and Arthur were, "if possible, more discreditable than those adopted by thetr f ellowa in 1876." It denounces ths Republican party as having made public lands the spoil of favored corporations, and as having "squandered the money of the country in maintaining a horde of idle,profljgate, and incapable place-men;" declares equal protection is not given to the industries of the country, and tint under the administration of the parly no win power the merchant marine of the United States has been broken up Col. Charles B. Codmau was chosen to preside over the -Hossacbusetts BepubHcan Convention, at Boston, anl in taking the chair said there was no room in that Commonwealth for a cheap and vulgar dictatorship, but there was a necessity for a Governor of decent manners and seemly behavior. On the first ballot for Governor Him, George IX Bobinson received 996 votes and Charles Francis Adams, Jr., 117, Mr. Adams at once caused the nomination of Mr. Bobinson to be made unanimous The remaining State officers were renominated, Mr- Dawes presented the platform, which was unanimously adopted, and which, after indorsing Arthur's administration, favoring civil-service reform, a currency based on specie and a higher standard of temperance legislation, arraigns and denounces the administration of Gov. Batlex. The Dakota Constitutional Convention, which met at Sioux Falls, has adjourned, leaving the final arrangement of the con" stltutfon in the bands of the Committee oi Arrangement and Phraseology. Very strin. gent safeguards will be made against the monopolies of banking and railroad:. Ihe convention defeated au amendment to the article on corporations, assessing' railroads upon their groat earnings. The question of salaries to be allowed State officers, was decided at

follows: The Governor, 92,000: the Treaa-

surer, Auditor and Attorney General, SI, 000 j

each; the Secretary and Supeiintendent of I Public Instruction, tl.EOdi The Legislature will fix other salaries A provision was j adopted to submit t a popular vote any , prohibitory measures upon the pet tlon of j 5,0 Olrgal voters, and upon a majority vote ,

it sfaa 1 become a part of the Stale constitn-

. Kavanagb, Hanlon, Smith and other Irish informers, who were nut permitted to land at Melbourne, AnstraUs, have been shipped back to England ; It is stated by a Paris correspondent that China offers to accept the French protectorate in A nam on condition that T nquin be evacuated. After a sanguinary battle King Koffeo was defeated in Aahantee by Kalcalle, the former seeking shelter in his capital, Ooomasste. A box of dynamite was discovered recently in the precincts of the Sultan's residence at Constantinople, resulting in a Circassian guard being exiled. Col. Clibborn, of tho Salvation irmy, has been expelled from Geneva; and Hiss Booth is imprisoned at Neufchatel for hold: ing army meetings contrary to law. James MoDermott, of Brooklyn, who was arrested in England on charge of conspiracy to murder public officials, has been released, the evidence being insufficient to hold him. When O'Donnell, the alayer of Carey, the informer, was marched from Mlllbank prison to Bow street, large crowds gathered at every point, and gave vent to cheers and hisses. The prisoner was formally charged with murder on the high sea The hearing was adjourned to Tuesday, Sept 25, to await the arrival of witnesses from Australia. A Nihilist "newspaper" declares that the troops killed 200 of the mob In the recent riots asEkaterlnoslav. The Minister of the Interior is, called 'Tolstoi, the hangman." 4 It is stated lry the London Times that Avenger O'Donnell is 45 years of age, served in the American rebellion, lived for some time in Philadelphia, and kept a public house on the Canadian border. He lost his money by investment in silver mines and Fenian bonds.

The Secretary of the Navy has placed the steamship Despatch at the disposal of tbeCorean Embassy. The pension appropriations are holding out far beyond the expectations oi the experts Mr. Hill, Supervising Architect, has tendered his-resignation. Postmaster General Gresham baa oroared the Postmaster at New Orleans to dettver no more registered letters or moaeysrdess, to the New Orleans National Bank sata it shall have discontinued reoeiving the lottery-man Dauphin's mails. Secretary Folger has made a M for rt&,000,C(0 j, 8-por-oeBts, the interest to

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SHSCEXXANEOTJS. The New York reading public were

surprised, the other morning, by the announcement of a reduction in the price of

the Timet from 4 cents to cents a copy. The Tribuna partially followed euit, reduc

ing its price from 4 to 3 cents. The multiplicity of cheap morning papers, which had made heavy inroads upon the circulation of the blanket sheets, brought about the re

duction. Pool Commissioner Albert Fink ap-

pearedaaa witness before the Senate Com

mittee on E location and Labor. He believes the pooling system necessary to tha existence of any railway service whatever. The growth of this necessity be instanced by stating that when he began as Pool Commissioner he represented but five roads, all running east and west Two associations similar to the one which he controls now exist in the West, covering territory not occupied by the Eastern jooL Pooling on a grand scale began in 1875 in the South. But for the water routes, Mr. Fink admitted, it would go very bard with the people, as the pinch which shippers now get at the close of navigation would be an all-destroying grip but that the dread of something after springtime pussies the magnates' will The gospel according-to Fink is, that when competition between individuals becomes ruinous it stops itself; but when corporations get into such a flght it cannot be stopped by tho mere ruin of the properties involved. Competition must be eliminated in order to make the business of transportation possible. Mr. Fink pronounced the scheme of Governmental purchase and control of the railroads the wildest folly imaginable. To a question as to whether the people could not be relieved of their causes of complaint, Mr. Fink grimly responded that so long as the people were charged anything at all they weald remain obdurate. The Chicago Christian Convention, led by Moody and Saukey, opened at Farwell Hall, in that city, in the presence of an immense audience. Many noted evangel, leal workers were in attendance, and during the series of meetings the best methods ot Christian work were elaborately discussed. Interest in the meetings did not Sag as they progressed, but there was a great rush and packed nouses each day A hurricane of groat violence swept over the Bahama islands. Fifty vesstOs were wrecked and upward of sixty lives lost. At Nassau many houses were blown down. Bev. K. Heber Newton, testifying before the Senate Sub-Committee on Education and Labor, said the condition of the laboring classes was a subject for expert study, and at the present time there was not sufficient information regarding it upon which to base any intelligent legislation. The difficulties met with by labor reformers were the intemperate habits of tho laboring classei and the improper methods to which labor resorted in endeavoring to accomplish its desires. The great want of the people he considered to bo industrial education. Instruction in public schools was woefully deficient, and its tendency was entirely one-sided. It has given to the youths of the country a dislike for manual labor, which has a very dangerous tendency. Co-operation was spoken of by the witness as the greatest aid to the elevation of the working classes. LiUie Dereraux Blake, another witness, advocated the establishment of matronshipc in all ihe penal Institutions and State reformatories for girls. Mrs. Dr 6. Croly, a newspaper writer, who has given cons.derable study to the condition of the laboring women in New-York city.rceommended a system of compulsory education, not only in the common schools, but in Industrial schools. Mrs. Dr. Clemance S. Los ier advocated the use of the bal.ot by women as the next practical means of improving their condition.

FOREIGN.

The members of tho' royal family of Denmark took lunch on board Mr. Gladstone's yacht at Copenhagen, when the Premier sailed for home. As order has reached Havana from the Madrid Government raising the direct taxes In Cuba &0 per cent,

LATER NEWS ITEMS. A mass convention of colored voters of Ohio was held at Columbus, feept. 20. The Democrats took control at the outset, but the Republicans reorganized the affair after recess. Then a split took place. One convention refused to send delegates to the Louisville convocation; the other appointed a full set The Civil Service Commissioners have been informed by Congressman Dezendorf, of Virginia, that Ifahone's agent lost week assessed all employes of the Norfolk Navy Yard 5 per cent on their salaries, the third levy this year, The Prohibitionists held a State Convention at, Boston. Ilesolutions were adopted declaring for equal political rights

for both sexes, civil-service reform, protec

tion to American industries, and, in con se

quence, as an aid to these, the suppression of the liquor traffic, The following ticket

was placed in nomination: For Governor, Charier Almy, of New Bedford; Lieutenant Governor, " John Blackmer; Secretary of

State, Solon F. Boot; Treasurer and Ke-

ciiver, Thomas J. Lathrop; Auditor,

Jonathan Brick; Attorney General, Samuel. M. Fairfield

Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile in Boston

in 2:11$ and showed no signs of exhaustion. On a bet of $1,000, on Cayuga lake, Charles E. Courtney, the oarsman, made three miles in 20.-05, beating the record by nine seconds. In the bioycle tournament at Springfield, Maa, Higham made twenty miles in 60 minutes 3Jf seconds, beating the record by ?2J seconds, takings purse of (1,000 and the championship of the world A boiler in the Sligo Iron Works, Pittsburgh, exploded with great violence, killing three men and seriously injuring eight. The shops of tho Lake Erie road and several dwelling-houses were set on fire. Tha largest fragment of the explodod boiler flew to the center of the Monongahcla river. The loss is 413,000. The Northern Pacific road reports gross earnings of t",f M.450 for the year and expenses of 5,336,031 Two men at Camp Point, 111., procured at a drug-store a quart bottle of bitters, and, after drinking freely, both dropped dead. A third man was seized withrpanns. Antoise Ferdinand Joseph Plateau, an eminent and aged French scientist, is dead, In closing the military maneuvers at Herseburg, Emperor William informed the troops that he would probably never again review them. He created Gen. Blumenthal a Count, The requisitions upon the Postofiice Department by the Postmasters for the new 2-cent stamps are so large that the contractors are unable to supply the demand, and the Department conao jucntly is reducing the amounts called for in the requisitions. The announcement comes from Washington that the Pension Office is unable to expend the money appropriated at the last session. jOommissioner Dudley called for $170,000,001, and now finds that 975,000,000 will suffice. As a result, a large amount of bonds will doubtless be called in. Tho Kentucky Methodist Conference indorsed the withdrawal of Sunday trains by the Louisville road, and resolved that camp-meetings shall be abolished unless unnecessary traffic on thegrounds is stopped during the Sabbath. Telegraphic communication with Brazil is now given to the public, via Galveston and Valparaiso. President Arthur, upon the opening ot the line, sent a dispatch of congratulation to the Emperor Don Pedro

POLITICS. Party Conventions, Platforms and Nominees.

Joseph Jefferson's child, less than 10 years of age, calls him "Joe." THE MARKET. NEW YOBS. Beeves 4.M .o Boos s.o & 9.60 Floob Superfine 3.70 i.lt Wheat No. l White 1.00 & 1.0954 No. i Bed 1.10U.& l.U Cram-No. soH& .six Oats No. 9 34 g .ss PORK Mess 12.00 t 12.60 IiD MS.VJ.'A"" 08J M5 CHICAGO. Bbevss Good to Fanoy Steers.. 6.28 & 6.HD Common to I'au- 4.35 6 4.HS Medium to Fair 8.00 & 6.55 Hoas .75 o MS Flouh Fancy White Winter En. J.50 8.80 GoodtnChotooSpr's'Ex. t-1i & 6.00 Wheat No. i Hprlmr os)j(S .'JS!j No. 2 Bed Winter 97H Cohn No. 2. .Wm MM 0AT3 No. X -i7 M) .27 Rye No. 2 ss!aa . BABIJtY No. 2 50 & .SBJi Bottek Chcio! Creamery...... .24 fjJ .20 Kaos Fresh ' 20!.. ft. .21 POHl Me. 10.6O 10.68 LAW) n& .08 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. z 9254 .02 Cohn No. a. 48 & .4 Oats No. X , ;io & .82 Rtb No. 2 si & .63 Barley No. a .64 Posk Mess 10.00 "ia60 LABD 07S .08 8T. LOUffl. Wheat No. 2 Red 97 .97J4 CORN Mixed 47 .45?4 OATS No. 2 24MS .25 ... 52 & .62K Pobx Mess 11.25 &11.37H LA&D 07J$ .01U CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 3 Bed 1.02 1.03 COSJt 51 .51 U OATS 26 n) .'JH'i RVE. .60 fobs: Mess. 12.M m'n IAJU iKUViii TOLEDO. Wheat No. a Bed .aiii& toix Cobs ..,. si 0 .62 Oats No. 2 S7!4 .28 DETROIT. Fix) or 4.00 0.76 Wheat No. 1 White l.Ofi a l.07J COBN No. 3 SW& Oats Mixed 20 & .20)4 Pobx Mess 13.00 l&60 ... INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 3 Red, j.oOTf 9 J.01 COBW No. J 47 & .48 Oats Mixed .26 $ mh EAST LIBERTY, PA. Cattle Best 6.00 (9 6.36 Fair 5.6O B 6.84 -Common 4.00 & 5.25 HOQS " "r. 5.20 & 6.40

4,00 9 4.60

Sen York Republicans, Maryland Democrats and HagMehngetts Republicans. Maryland Democrats. The Democrats of Maryland, in convention at Baltimore, nominated Bobert B. lioLane for Governor, and adopted tho following platform of principles: Tlic Democratic party of Maryland, In State Convention assembled, resolves as lollows: Tho election for executive officers of the State, to be hold la November this year, is of momentous Importance, because it will determine the poliov knd control of the Legislature of the State nntli 1883, and will exert a deolsivo influence upon the vote of the State at the Presidential election of 1884. The declaration of the election of Hayes and Wheeler, In 1873, to the offices of President and Vice President of the United States was brougut about by fraud consummated under the forms Of law; and tue methods nscd in the eleotion of Garfield and Arthur, in 1880, have been proved by the creatures who did tho evil work to have been, if possible, more discreditable than those adopted by t'icir fellows In 1876. The National Republican parly Of the country has, during its tennro of power, made public lands the spoil of favored corporations, it has squandered the money of the oountry by maintaining a horde of idle, profligate a 'id incapable placemen. It has not, during; its tenure ot power In its tariff legislation, tdren that just and equal protection to the Industries ot the oountry which it ought to have afforded, but has, on tho contrary, made tho masses of the people pay from their earnings onormous bounties to favored monopolies. It has broken up the commerce of tho United States in vessels carrying the national flag. It has permitted the unworthy men who planned and executed the frauds pen etrated in the Presidential elections ot 1876 and 1880 to deal with tho patronage of the Government and with tbe public money in the tre isury as if them great trusts were spoils ot an enemy's camp. The Demooratio Conservative party of this State will enter into tho Stato and national campaigns ot this and ensuing years with Its who'o heart, renting its opinions on national politics as heretofore upon tho oxprcs words ot tho tenth anr-mlment to tho constitution of the United States, adopted in 179J: "Tho powers not delegated to the United States by tbe constitution, nor prohibited by it U) the States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people." It will demand that national taxation, la all its forms, shall bo limited to Mich amounts as are n-cessary for the economical administration of Government, for the payment of Interest upon tbe public debt, and for tho redemption in each year of a Axed and reasonable proportion of that debt; it will demand such revision and amendment qf the Federal laws relating to the shipping and carying of ocean freights as will restore onr menhant marine to its former prosperity. Massachusetts Republicans. The RcDublicans of the Bay State met in convention at Boston, nominated OeorgeD. Bobinson. a Chicopee lawyer and Harvard graduate, for Governor on the first ballot, and unanimously adopted the loilowinir resolutions: In presentfbg to Massachusetts its candidates for State officers the Republican party docs not doom it necessary to this year offer any formal statement of its political principles. Those principles have been often decltrcd. In national affairs we believe in equal rights and a fairlycounted vote; a thoroughly pure and reformed oivil service, beyond the reach of parly conflicts; asonnd currency, based on an honest specie dollar: a liberal but in no wise extravagant or wasteful expenditure; a largely-reduced taxation, and wise and well-matured laws to promote and develop American industry and enterprise both at home and on the ocean ; we indorse the administ: ation of President Arthur as wisp, conservative and patriotic. As regards State affairs, we believe in wldclydenuscd education, even a higher standard of temperance legislation, pure and extended suffrage, equal taxation, iutelllgent recognition ot the rights of labor as well as capital, and we would take no step backward in regard to those philanthropic, charitable, and educational institutions in the constant development of wbleh our beloved Commonwealth has been ever foremost. AH these things we have many times asserted, and we appeal to tbe gra iual and steadyprogress unmistakably apparent through tbe records of the last quarter of a century, both in tho State and nation, as pi oof that wo have not at soi ted in vain. We stand ready to assert them now, and to maintain them also, While we do not believe la that political charlatanry which makes a business of sham reform, indlscriminucly treat ng groat moral aivi humanitarian questions, jnblic offices, aiad puulic issues as counters in R ime, the foIo cud of which is one man's politl si preferment, neither can we patiently see methods of poliMoal corruption, unknown here botore, Introduced hvo our State and Municipal Governments. Unices checked 1 ere and now, these methods will snrely oring tho politics of Masraehwct a to a level wlrk-h we havo seen olHcwhere aad have not been slow to vigorously denounce. Tuis year, therefore, the work of reform for us b gins at home. Tbe is-suo Is well understood. Wo propose to blot out. In bo far as wo may, the record ot the most discreditable year in the history of tho State. It is time, not for many words, but for decisive action. We present, therefore, onr candidates as men simply pledged, if elected, to carry the administration of affairs back to tiles'; better days when our rabiic men wjra not brat lo traduce the State, mt, if the State were traduced by others, were ready to stand up, as did Webster onco. raying, with honest prido: "Mawachui'setts there she is) Behold her Judge for yourselves." Now York Republicans. The New i'ork Republican State Convention disposed of itsworkatBichfiold Springs rapidly and smoothly, renominating Gen. Carr for Secretary of State: Ira Dnvenport for Comptroller; Pliny T. Sexton for Treasurer: Silas Seymour for Engineer, and L. W. Russell for Attorney General The following platform was adopted without dissent: Tbe Republicans ot New York, in Stato Convention, hold that tho reo rd of the Repnb ican party in the ast affords tbe best guaranty of the party's purposes and acts in tho future. The preservation ot the national life, the keeping of the national faith, tho promotion of tbe, national credit, the payment of the imlic debt, the reduction of taxation, tho protection of homo industries, tbe elevation of labor, the purification ot the civil service and, in tine, administrative policy Lased upon wio legislation, that has glvenunexamplcd prosperity to the country and promoted the happiness and progress ot the p.oi lc are the achievements that commend the Republican p.rty to continued popular favor. We rejoice in the wisdom and success of President Arthur's administration of the affairs of the Government, which commands univers .l respect througbont tho conntry, and has the confidence and support ot the lie) ublicons of the State of New York. Onr Senators and Representatives in Congress have our thanks for their part In the reduction ot internal taxation to the extent of $40,M 1,000. While tbe national credit is kept unsullied, the publlo debt is being steadily reduced, and tho defenders of national life ere justly the recipients ot a grateful republic's bounty. We approve honesty and fidelity in the Government expenditure, tbe reduction of tbe Interest on the public debt, and the payment of the debt as rapidly ss may be without unduly burdening the people, the bringing of taxation within the lowest rractiuablo limits, the rednoHon of the force of public officials to the lowast number con latent with the requirements ot the service, and the adoption of ovosy practicable means that will diminish tbe burdens of taxation. We rejoice in the successful inauguration of e vil-service reform (a result of Republican agitation) and national progress, and insist tbat tbe work time suspiciously begun shall be prosecuted to complete snceeK", We favor a system at tariff laws under which, while revenue for tho Government Is provided, American producers are justly protected. American labor elevated, and home markets are secured to home products, for the advantage alike of producer and laborer, Wo favor the removal of all unjust I urdens upon American shipping, and the awarding ot ocean mall contracts to tho lowist bidder among the owners ot Ameiican vessels after open competition. We favor the establishment bv Congress of a National Bureau ot Labor Statistics, with tbcobjeet of promoting the industrial, i-ocial and sanitary conditions ot tbe people. We favor the snrroundlng of primary meetings, as well as popular elections, with the security of honesty and purity, as indispensable requisites to correct polltio.M aotion. The tendency to create monopolies requires checking by adequate 1 'Bis ation. I'njust discrimination In transportation shoul I lie prohibited ; and violation of chartero I privileges ju-tines the intervention of the State to correct the evils thus engendered, taxation eh.mld be rquallied and its hnrd-ns bo borne proportionately by real and person d property; and the po icy ot taxation of corporations is np- ? roved en the tet of its practical operation, ho free-canal policy of this Stito ha in practice justlti a its adoption, by restoring canals to ttiolr uof ulnaas, by bringing to the State increased commerce, by assuring to it a continuance of commercial supremacy. We approve the plan of party r organization in the city of New York and recommend that ft bo persisted In, to the end that it shall embrace all Republicans in the city on equal terms &ud fooring. We believe in the wisdom of the peoplo In deciding all questions pfrlolniiig to the publlo welfare, and wtuld accede to the dsira of a large body of our citizens ti submit (o the voters of the Ha c a constitutional fm udment in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquors. Demo'.rati - incapacity and lnabllitv to administer the Gov rnmcnt are demonstrated in the conduct of tho late Legislature, uhtrc twothirds of the Democratic majority w false to its' ledces and to public i torests. The reckless partisanship and insatiate greed forome of the Democratic party brought, it isito public contempt. Its special legislation to make places for partifann, and its inert as 1 of (he salaried list ti reward favorites, brought upon It public execration. Tbe utter disregard ot tmr orient public interests and its increasnof State t.xatlon are offenses uut to be condoned. The course purmird In It cowardly attempt to ovadc the responsibility of nllirmat ive action on the contract-labor que tlon, and to shirk the issue presented In the platform of tbe last Democratic State Convention, Itu canted the distrust of the taxpayor and the contempt of the worklnttmen. It is tho duty of the people to rescue tho Legislature from tho control of an incompetent and falthlitas party, and from being the sport of plao-hunters and sri llsnien, and to seenro a continuance of an (conomttal, efficient and mtisfa-.tory Rdmintntia't'n of tiie State departments, by ihe eleotion of the ticket for State officers this day placed in nomination.

A phenomena!, woman reoontly died at Pesth, aged 70 yeara The doctors who made a post-mortem examination of tbe body found that Bhe was not only without the rpleen, hut bad never bad any.

aPS 1 tardy), V .1,1881. )

NASBT. Mr. Nasb) Has a Dream in "Which the Troubles that Attend a Reorganization of the Nomocracy Appear Most Vividly.

IFrom the Tolodo Blade.

CoNFEOEiuT X Roups

(wlch Is in the State uv Kentucky),

bopt.

Othors besides tho profits, and them in Holy Writ, hov dreems; and, ef dreams wuz profetik in the dazouv old, why not know? Troo, they wuz inspired, and thor dreems wuz inilooonoed from tho hod, while mino come mostly from the stumiuk, wich is flttin. Thcr ain't no csposhl hoad in tho avrigo Dimocrat to inllooonco, white all uv cm hov stumick. A angel liovevht around wuss the coz uv dreems in tho profettlk days uv yoro, while mine is sooperindoost mostly by cold pork or bolonysassigo. That's tho difference atweon tho droem uv a profit and the tlreom uv a iJiinokrat. I drccmod last nite. I bed bin partnkin nv a free lunch wich Laseom sot iu honor uv Uis 25th anniversary, and, oz Deekin Pogrom hed jist sold a mule for cash, he wilt libral in scttih uv em up, and tho resnlt wnz I rolled under the tablo and slept nil nite, Bascom crooolly lockin up the bir so that ef I shood nwako I oooden't do him any damngo by takiu drink? and forgottin to mark cm down. Foolish man ! z tho I wooden't mark 'em down ! Ez I hevor eggspoct to pay auyhow, why 'shoodeu't I mark 'em down I Hut I slept and I drecracd. I dreemed that we hed looked over the jhull feold mid desided that by kcerfnl and nkoot management wo food elect a Dimekrutic President in 1884. Somehow the managemout uv the ontiro irizais hod sort o' drifted into my (hands, and I wuz marshellin the forces jnd makin the dispos'shon of everything coimei'ted with tho enmpane. ' "iiow look-ft-here," I remarked to .'em, "ther seems to bo a prejoodis agin jtho old-style Dimocr'sy. A record sieh cz wo hov is a mity bad thing for a party wich is goin' to rite a battle ou tho single ishoo uv Reform, and with tho one single war-cry, 'The rascals must go !' In such a lite them wich hez bin jobjockshunablo to the peoplo at large must keep in the background till after the lite is won. Ez the ishoos is to be new, we want the corpses to remain berried until jist after the battle, mother, when they may resnrect and come in for tho spoils oz fast ez they hev a mind to. Only ihey must lay low till after the idea uv November, 1884." That wuz agreed to oz bein mity good sense, and I perilled to arrange the lino uv battle. I shoved tbe old Uimocris? into tha background, all them with butternut cloihiu, and put in tho front tho noo rccroots wich we hod won from the Republican party, and sich eleen skirted Democrats ez hod eome up sence the War, and wich hedu't cz yet entirely gradooated in our siiool ; and a very handsome line I made uv it. Tho nest question wuz, Who shood wo hev fur standardbarer? I was castin about, lookin fur some Goliath nv Gath without a damagiu record, aud one with wind and limb enutl fur our purpose some young mail too young to hov bin obnoxious dooria tho lata onpleasantuis, and who hed b.'n out uv the kentry ever senoe. I coodout find exactly the man, but finally decided ou hevio Hancock to the front, notwithstandiu his defect four years ago. A bloo uniform takes well at tho North, aud tho South, jedgiu the man by his company, have no objeckshun to it They aro shoor of a mau which trains with us, no matter wat color tho yooniform ho wears. And I grouped about him Ben Butler, who actilly did hang a man wmist, and Hoadly, uv Ohio, and a hundred or more 'very now Dimoorats, ez many more Republtkins which hed gono oft' with Oreeley and stayed, and others wich, becomiu disgusted with the corrupshuns of Grant, who wooden't give em places, hed sought tho companionship of Tweed and Tilden. It waz a voty pretty show I mado with em, and our front looked as innocent and gileless m noo milk. But misforohoon alluz follows Dimoerisy. Jist ez I hed em all arranged ole Sammy Tilden rums rollin and staggerin to the front with his war reoor;l, his Tweed biznis, and his literary but o, and all tho rest uv it hongm to hrrn so loadid down, in fact, that ho coodent waddle, much loss run; and he snatched the banner out uv my hand and, with a smile that wnz sweetnis itself, remarkt: "l t course I must kerrv this!" -The blazes you will ! ' si-d I. " yew?" "Cortinly 1 must bo vindicated. Ef we don't vrndicato me, wat is the yoose uv a Dimerkratic victory? Ef Dimekrats wich hov borue the heat and burdon nv the day ain't put to tho front, why Dimoorisy ?" lio passed down the line till ho sttggered. to tho center and bumped up agin Hancock, wich stoo I on a slippery place (all in our ranks stand on slippery places), wic'i knocked Hancock orf his pins' and ho went on with his ornshnn : "A Dimekratic victry without me to tho fore wooden't be a Dimekratic victry at all. It is doo me. I wuz defrauded out uv ihe Presid.mey. I bought the Presidency, and pada for it a good niilyun nv dcilars uv hard cash. But I didn't git it. It is my turn now. I must be vindicated." "Avant!" I shreeked. "We ain't in tho vindicatin bknis. Wo don't want vindicashens we want postoQlsoH. Wat do we keer for viudicashen ? Git out." '. But it wuz uv no avail. With strength for wich I didn't give him credit, he clutched the banner and held it, loaded e.1 ho wuz. And immojitly ther wnz a movement from behind that wuz simply appalin. John Kelly, wieh I hed hid in the roar rank, plunged to the front; all tho old Copporheds and Soeesh uv tha old times cum rushin up in piano sito-all remarkin that, ef they wuzn't to be vindicatid, why a iito at all? and all uv em olaunin that the clieof end nv tbe Dimocrisy wuz to vindicate them. This one grabbed a postoflis, wich, he sed, wuz necessary to his vindiedshen, another a custom-house, another a nominashen to tho Governorship uv his State; and so on all around. It wuz ez perfoek a pandemonium ez ever I see. And, to make tho matter wuz, tho rush wuzn't confined to the livin. Tho ghosts uv ded Dimikrals hovered over 'em, smiling, sayhig that, whilo they cooden't vote or be voted for, thor momories must be vindicated, and without sich vitidicashen ther wnz no yooso for a Dimocvisy at all. Tito gost uv Bohs

Tweed sailed in ; and that uv l esse i. Brite uv lujVany, wieh ought to hov bin forgotten l"i veers ago. win very prominent; and in brocf, ef thor wuz a man livin espeshly obnoxious to tho pcopol, or the gost' uv a man whose momry wuz pertiklerly unsavory, thoy wuz all ther and very conspicuous. The effeckwnzsuthin olcctrikle. The dissatisfied Ropublikins wion hed drifted into our ranks bocoz uv our oivil-servis biznis aud differences on the money question and the tariff and sich onuses hold ther noses a minit and then began a stampede. "Ther ain't no yoose," sod they iu korus. "It's the same cussid old party after all. Dimoerisy nover learns anything and never forgets anything." J They scurried away ez tho they believed Asiatic cholera hed struck tho assemblage, and the quioker they got out the better for em, and the other

class uv patriotic Republikens wich hed jiued us moved off slowly, swarin that, onless they hed the controle uv

tho oflises, thoy did-i't see any reason for ther stayin in sich company that they'd bedam ef thov wnz goin to rooin therselves pullin obi itnuts out uv the fire for other men. And they went, leavin us just tho samo old material, with no more chance uv winnin than Capt. Webb hed uv swimmin the rapids at Niagara. Jist thou I awoke. The sun wuz shinin thro the winders uv Basoom's, and tho hired gal wuz swoepin the flore preparatory to the day's biznu. I sot a moment and thawt. Ded men have long fingers. Long after they are under ground thoy reach and reach, with n more wicked grip than they hed in life. Vallandigham ded yet speaketh7 and Boss Tweed's memory is yet potent for evil to us. So long ez wo hov to bear his substanco. We can't get rid uv Boss Tweed or Vallandigham till wo hov showed that we hov abandoned tho ideesuv Boss T wood and Vallatidigham. We hev inherited a record wich wo hevn't purged ourselves nv, becoz, no matter ez to our men, tho motives and methods ore precisely tho samo. Yoo may paint over tho spots uv a leptrrd and cut off the tale uv a fox but tho one will chaw up antelopes, and the other steel chickeas. Dimoerisy is Dimoerisy j no matter how it is disgised. Wuz tins dreem profetic? I think so. I am sore and sad. If wat I dreem comes to pas), and it locks as tho it wood, that Niggor Lubbock on whose hed cusses w 11 hold my postofHs four yeers longer, and by that time I shel be wher posto'Hsos aro not, and wher it makos no difference to me who is Presidont. Well, !o it no. I nm fastened onto Bascom and tho Deekin for tho present, and tltaf is good enuS for one whoso whole life hez bin a struggle for a very littlo bread and a great deal nv likker. Petroleum V. Nasdy (Despondent)

Political Hotel. The Democrats who are continually shouting "turn tho rascals out" should pari 0 long enough to remember that rascals usually turn themselves out, and that tho majority of them have been out for a conple of decades. P. H. Wisstos, heretofore one of the leaders of the Democracy of North Carolina, has formally announced his conversion to Republican doctrines. When he delivered the valedictory at the University of North Carolina, in tho presence of William H. Seward, the latter took off his watch and presented it to tho young orator. Never was there a party more at a loss to know what to do than the Demooratio party is at present. They are in favor of free trade, aud they want a tariff "for revenue only." They want civil-sorvico reform, and they " don't want it. They want tho saloons taxed, and they waut freo whisky. In short, they are like a swarm of boos flying around hunting a place to settle. Keep the rascals out B&ljord lad.,) Jourrial. Tub country is not going to believe that the Democratic party has ceased to desire a partisan civil service, or a debaunched currency, or fraudulent elections, merely hocnuso of profes-io t3 and prauusAs, or the nomination of a well-mcaaing candidate so long as its change of purpose i not shown by a complete revolution in the Congressional actiou of the party. If we aro to believe that the leopard has changed his spots, there must be some proof that ho no longer eats peoplo when he has a chance. New York Tribune. If there aro any reasons for turning Republicans out, oxeept to let Democrats iu, we would thank some of the able advocates to mention them. Would they do as well as they did when they had tho power before? Would even that be encouraging? The nation has mode greater advance in real prosperity under the twenty-three years of rule of the Republican parly, notwithstanding tho enormous burdens from the War of the Rcliollion, than it d:d under a whole half century previous. Financially, commercially, socially, and in ull that enters into the make-up of national prosperity, tho United Statoa to-day is an object for tho wholo world to odmiie. Inter Ocean. One of the best characterizations of the Democratic party that has yot boon mado is the foliowing from the Boston Herail: "There are almost as many grades and styles of Democracy as there aro StatPs in tho Union. There is the li-np and i-errclcss, the artfuldodging, the wide stra Idling and the bold-fro.it Democracy. The lattsr type, we ar-i sorry to say, is the i03t uncommon." Tho accuracy of this characterization no one will deny, because tho Host u Hera'd is a Democratic newspaper. But to which class does it belong? The St Louis Glihe-Demovrat, looking the country over, observes that the Domocracy has what it aptly olU "a political Donnybrook on its hand, and diagnoses the situation as follows: "A bird's eyo view of the whole Democratic field supplies tho following rovelatioKs : Irreconcilable rows in in New York and Ohio, the Now York Sun aud what it represents saying that it is madness to agitate tne tarii! question, and the four ier-Journal orowd crying that it is madness to leave it alone, a similar antagonism though less talked about on the currency, an advocacy of tamperauco laws in Missouri and opposition to them in Ohio, and tho only bond of union anywhere to be observed a desire to gain possession of the ofliccs. Is it at nil strange that au agitation o.f these discordant elements produces rows, especially when individual selfishness is tho inspiration? Is it possible that an organization of this nature can win in a general political confe st" A Sad Lire. Foolish girls, who, dazzled by th glare of tho foot-ligh's, are hankering to appear on the stage, shonld read and digest these confessions of Miss Maggie Mitchell, a successful actro, written for the Xorth American heriew: It would bo bold for mo to pretend to descry the chances of success for the actress of tho future. It is a lottery, this profession of ours, in whioh even the prizes are, after all, not very considerable. My own days, spent most of them far f roni my ohildrcn and the comforta and delights of my homo, are full of exhausting labor. Rehearsals and other business ocenpy

I me- from early morning to tho hour ot j performance, with brief intervals for

rest ami food a id a tittle sleep. Jn the best hotels my timo is so invadod that 1 can scarcely live comfortably, much le;-s luxur'O'isly. At Ihe worst, existence" becomes a torment and a burden. i am the eager yet weary slave of my profession, and tile best it can do foe mo who am fortunate enough to bo included among its successful members . is to barely palliate tho suffering of n forty-weeks' exile from my own housq and my family. For those of our calling who have tf mako this weary round, year after year, with disappointed ambitions and de. feated hopes as their insepjrab'e ooini pany, I can feel from the bottom of my heart Each soason makes the life hnrdei' and drearier; each year robs it of onq more prospect, one more chance, onq more opportunity to try and catch tlw fleeting bubble in another fiehL

OUR YOUffG FOLKS. An Unsatisfactory Meeting. t little man, in walking down tbe dusty read one clay, net a little woman traveling afoot the other way: and, taring down bla bla valise, he bowed in bandxomc atyle. While ehe returned bis greeting with a eurtaey and a amllo. 'Can yen Inform me where, ma'am, I can fln l a wife?" said be, "!' was on my tongue to aek about a hnaband, Rir," id aba, 'I'm weary of my ainglo state, and many miles I've gono for one who'll oook and wash for me, and sew my l.u:tin on; Who'll wait on ma when I am well and tend me when I'm IU, and never give me cause to grumble at a foolish bill. Do you know any one, ma'am, yon can recommend?" sxid he, "I'm looking for precisely such a husband, sir," said she. He puckered up hia Hps and whistled thoughtfully and lowThen slowly reached for hia valise, regretfully to go; While, with a pensive little smile, she gazed sp

and watched tbe fleecy cloudlets as they lazily passed by. " f is plain I'm not the husband you're aftir, ma'am!" said be. f is evident I'm not the wife you're seeking, sir!" said she. Malcolm lluuglar, in SI. Nicholas. Mr. Thompson and the Fleld-Kloe. Mr. Thompson lay under the hedge by tho wheat finld. He had loft tho house because the piazza was crowded with summer boarders, and the chatter of tho young ladies disturbed his thoughts, hy said. What he was thinking about he did not tell, but ho carried with him a large book called "The Natural History .of Rodentia," and had his finger upon the article on fieldmice. He read for a few moments after he had settled himself comfortably in tho si) ado of tho hedge; then he shut the book, and gazing out over the swaying field of golden grain, he murmured to himself: ""Field-mice 1 They must be curious little animals. They do not seem to do any harm. I wonder what they live on?" "Wheat," piped a small voice near his foot. "Wheat?1 said Mr. Thompson, somewhat startled. "Wheat," repeated the small voice. Mr. Thompson looked down. There olose by his foot sat the cunningest little mouso you could imagine. He was but very little over an inch long, and he had very bright eyes and a very long curly tail, and he sat up on his hind legs and winked knowingly at Mr. Thompson. "Wheat we live on wheat," he repeated, with a shrill little giggle at Mr. Thompson's surprise. . Mr. Thompson stared at the tiny creature in amazement, then asked: "What do you live on after the wheat is gone?" "Corn," squeaked tho mouse. "But corn don't last always," objected Mr. Thompson. "What do yoo do in the winter?" "Sleep," replied the field-mouse, cheerfully. "We go under-ground and sleep. Now there is our cousin tho big field-mouse; he lays up a store of eatables for tho winter. And, as for our other cousin the house-mouse, I don't believe he sleeps at alL" "I don't believe he does," said Mr. Thompson, shaking his head, as he thought of the sleepless nights he had passed while the mica were holding high carnival in the walla. "Where do you live?" he asked. "Over hero in the wheat Come over and see," answered the mouse. "Not that way," he added, laughing, as Mr. Thompson started to rise. The mouso ran up Mr. Thompson's arm, and sat on his head. It seemed as if he weighed a ton, and Mr. Thompson slowly began to grow smalrer and smaller. His alpaca duster was just the right color for tho mouse's back, and his white vtst did not change in hue, thongh it was of soft fur, instead of cotton duck. Mr. Thompson looked at himself approvingly. He really made a very hanthome mouse, and he switched his long tail jauntily as ho followed his new-found friend. Thoy threaded their way in and out among the wheat stalks, which seemed liko large trees now, till at lost the mouse paused, and said: "There is my house up'tnere." About eighteen inches from the ground three or four wheat ctalks were brought together, and between them hung a ball of dried grass and long horse-hairs about as big a a base ball, curiously woven togethor, making a solid nest The mouse ran Hghtiy up tho stalk, and Mr. Thompson followed. On one side of the ball there was a small hole. Into this the mouse went, and Mr. Thompson followed. Inside was Mrs. Mouse and six children. Mr. Thompson stayed in tha nest but a moment, for it was smill.and the apartment was crowded. After coming down and complimenting the mouse upon the beauty of bh dwelling and its inmates, he sat down, and prepared to question ' his companion. "You spoke of your cousin, the largo field-mouse. Does he live in the same way?" he asked. "No," replied themonse: "he lives on the ground. He makes his nest of grass; bat as he is so much larger than I am, he could not run up the wheat stalk as I do. I have another cousin, the short-tailed or black mouse, bat we are not verv proud oi him. He lives in the ground all tho year round, and steals anything he can lay his paws on. Then in the winter he will eat off tho bark all around a young apple-tree, and kill it That is the reason why people dislike us. We dont do any harm, but the black mouse and the house-mouse are so wicked that we have suffer for their faults. But hero comes one of my cousins from the house. I'll introduce you to him," After the introduction was over the house-mouse said: "Perhaps yon would like to walk down to the barn and see how we live there? We have raro sport, I assure you." "I should like to do so very much," replied Mr. Thompson. "I have been greatly interested in your cousin's house." "Pooh!" said tbe honse-mouse. "That is nothing. I live in t he lumber-room, next to the granary. There are several families of us there, and I can assure you we have some queer delling-plaoee. My nest is in an old boot I have a friend who lives in a tea-kettle, and another has a splendid place in an old cushion." They trottotl along as they talked, and soon rcacl cd the granary. Here Mr. Thompson saw tho nests, and was much interested in one enterprising individual who had taken possession of an old jug which was lying on its side. He had filled it with paper and cornsilk, and boasted that ho had the warmest house in the lumber-room. "I was ft little afraid of it at first, thongh," ho said, "for I had a brother who crawled into one of thoso big humming-tops and couldn't get out You see, whenever he trie! to get to tho hole it would roll over, and so he was unable to escape. He had been in it all day, when the "nurso-girl came to find the top, and as sho camo up the stairs ho happened to movo, so that the

top rolled toward her. auo was lawfully frightonod, and ran to the house, screaming that the top was bewitched. Thou they came out and took tho top away and'l have never seen him since, Mr. Thompson remembered the circumstance, and how tho mouse had been shaken from the top into the clutches of the cat, bat he said nothing. After he had looked around to his satisfaction he retraced hia steps to' the wheat field. His friend the fieldmouse was waiting for him. "What do you tliak of living ia the

granary?" he inquired, aa Mb Thomp. son seated himself, .- , "Well," replied Mr. Thompson, reflectively, "I should think ft would be more dangerous. The cat is arousal alt the time, and the folks set traps, and it is so much used by tha men that 1 should think it would not be a very good place." "Yes," replied the fle'd-moose; "but then the cats come here too, and the weasels, and in the night the owla. So you see we have a pretty hard time of it. There was one nice man, though," he added, reflectively. "Who was that?" inquired Ml, Thompson! "That Scocth poet, Burns. Havent you read hia poem to a mouta ? Bat hero comes a young lady. Now yon will see some fun." And the moused little black eyes twinkled with mischief, as he rushed toward the bars.

Mr. Thompson looked around; it was too late. The young lady was hia betloved Angelina. The mouso dashed at her furiously. She saw him coming, and jumped frantically toward a rock, uttering a series of screams which would do credit to a steam calliope. The next thing Mr. Thompson knew, he was at her side and she had fainted in his arms. It was the work of some) time to revive her; and,'as Mr. Thompson gathered up her parasol and fan, which sho Jind dropped in her alarm, and assisted her fivlre.ing steos homeward, he mado a solemn vow never again to be a mouse, since the inoffensive animal carried siioh terror to tho feminine heart Harner'a Young Peo

ple.

A Peet ou Planting Trees. Oliver Wondoll Holmes writes to O ' friend as follows :' You and your friends have choson a very pie tsant aud moot useful way of commemorating some of the authors whom yon think werthv of being remembered by their .follow countrymen. I hope that the exampl set of planting trees as monuments will do as much for American landscape aa the best of our authorship has done for, American literature. The trees may outlive the memory of more than 000 of those in whose honor they wet planted; but, if it is something to make two blades of grass grow where only one was growing, it is much mqro to have been the occasion of the plant, ing of an oak which shall defy twenty' score of winters, or of an elm whioft shall canopy with its green cloud of foliage half as many generations of mortal immortalities. I have wrrttea many verses; but the poems I have' produced aro the trees I plant d on tho hill-side which overlooked the broad meadows, scalloped and ronided at their edges by loops of the sinuous Housatonic. Nature finds rbynes for them in the recurring measures of tho seasona. Winter strip ? them of their ornamants and gives them, as it were, in prose translation, and sum tier re-, clothes them in all the splcmVd phrases .

of their lecfy lai gtiage. What aro these maples and Leeches and birohas but odes and idyls end madrigals? What are these pines and firs and spruces but holy hymn", too solemn for the mart y-h nod raiment of 'theit gay, deciduor.s neighbors ? Bat I must not let my fancy run ft way with me. JJf is enough to know that when we plant a tree we are doing what we can to make our planet a mor j wholesome and happier dwe liag-plaeo for thoso who come aftr us, if not for ourselves. As vou drop the seed, as yet plant tho sapling, your left baud hardly knows what yoir right hand dorng. But, natnre knows, and in drte time the Power that and work in socret will reward yon openly. You havo been warned aga.in.st hiding vottr talent ia a napkin; but, if your talent takes the shape of a map'e-key or an acorn and your napkin is a tt r.tl of the apron that cove; s "tho Jai f earth," you may hide it thora nub emod, and wi.e yoo render your account you will find that your deposit lias been drawing oonpound interest all the time. ' Dumb Mike. In the city of Lowell there used to live an old, highly-respected deaf mute known by the name of "Dumb Mike." One day he took it into his head to attend a meeting which Ooa. Butler was to address, as ho was anxious to catch s) sight of famous "Old Ban," whom if had never been his good fortune" to gase upon. Entering the hall early in th . evening he secured a seat in tho front row, and patieutly bided his time until the meeting was lull and Butler arose to address tho andienco, whioh greeted him with vociferous applause. "Old ; Ben" cleared hi throat; began his. speech, and looked around for sympathizing faces, as is the case with most speakers. Hia oye caught the steadfast gaze and interested countenance of Dumb Mike. To him, therefore, tho speaker turned his attention the wholo evening, gesticulating and nodding his head. Mike, vastly interested in thSj performance, bowed his head every time in accompaniment to the General s repeated nods. A part of the andienoo wituesscd this dumb play, and soon the whisper went arouiuT, "the General is talking to Dumb Mike," accompanied by smiles and wir.ki. Tho General elated by tho favorable impression ho' -was apparently producing upon the object of his attentions talked faster and gest'eubtted more furiously. As soon' as he ended his speech he went eagerly to shako hands with Dumb Mike, who' met him more thtn hah? way. Both' were ehaking hands and beaming with smiles as if they were old friends, and tho General said in an affable tone,1 "How do you do? Glad to see yoo, Mike, catching tho motion of his lips, quickly put his hand to bis ear, at the same time shaking h'S head. Gen. Butler, after gazing at him in ostomist- . -ment, turned to a bystander and asked "What the deuce does he mean?" "Ok , that is Dumb Mike. He is deal as a post and " The rest of the sentonoe ' was lost by tho sudden exit of tho Goat?; eral in a towering passion. It has beam noticed ever siuco that the General hated the class, and it was no dooht this feeling that prompted him In tha halls of Congress to call deaf mutes "half men." ' Osr Own War. . A story is told of a King who won into his garden ono morning and found everything withering and dying. Ho'., asked an oak that stood neat the gate what the trouble was. He found that it was sick of life and determined to die becaiiso it was not tall and beautiful like the pine. The pine was out oi heart because it ocnld not bear grapes like the vine. Tho vine was going to throw its life away b scan so it could not. ' stand erect and have as fine fruit as th. t pomegranate; and so on throughout the garden. Coming to a heart's-ease bo found its bright fttoj npl-ftcd, as full of

j r-hterfolucss as over. "Well, heart's. 1 etice." said the King, "I im glad to find ! one brave littlo flower in this general discourage ment and dying. Yon dont -. I seem one bit disheartened." "No, your j Majesty. I know I am of small so- . , . . -1 . 9

conns, due i. coucuiaea yon wiuuw a heart s-ease when yon planted me. Jf you had wanted an oak or a pine or a vine or a pomegranate you. would havo set one out. So I am bound toba tho best heat t's-easo that over I can." Y j wise, truly, was tho ho irt's-erjje. We had better follow its example. The failure to recover bodies of persons drowned in Lake Wimiepiseogos, N. H., is explained by the fact that quicksands exi&t in pruximity to th oold springs at the bottom of bs mal